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AUGUSTIN THOMPSON, M. D. 



'The Origin and * * * * 
Continuance of Life * * 



TOGETHER WITH THE "DEVELOPMENT OF 
A SYSTEM FOR 3UEDICAL ADMINISTRA- 
TION ON THE LAW OF THE SIMILARS, 
FROM A "DISCOVERY OF ITS TRINCIPLES 
IN THE LAW OF NATURAL AFFINITIES. 

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'By cAugustin Thompson, M. D. f 

Boston, cMass. 

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PREFACE. 

The reader will pardon my egotism. If I was not 
an old man of 67, who has been in practice nearly 40 
years, 20 of which was admitted to be the largest ever 
known in New England, I should not be so pronounced 
in my statements. A graduate of two different colleges 
before I began business, I feel that I had a fair under- 
standing of the old theories extant and a fair judgement 
of their rights in natural science. I felt that medicine 
was not able to show it was a nerve support. Indeed, it 
has ruined half the nervous systems in the United States, 
while trying to force the nervous systems to keep the 
functions going while no foundation for natural strength 
was added. Physics in constipation, stimulants and 
tonics on the same principle for nerve exhaustion, coun- 
ter-irritants for pains, with anodynes to suppress the pain 
and put it out of sight when it was the best helper the 
physician could have to advise him of the origin and 
location of the trouble in his patient's organism, have 
allowed disease to populate the graveyards and insane 
asylums twice as fast as it ought to occur. This is the 
opinion of almost every physician in the country, and he 
turns to the facts helplessly and asks what else can he 
do to relieve the patient ? While I am not overbur- 
dened with intellect and learning, I have tried to find a 
better means in the natural laws. The first thing that 



drew my attention was this: I observed that there was 
a powerful recuperative life force in a person that strug- 
gled hard to throw off disturbances or illness. It accom- 
plished its purpose, generally, but there were some cases 
when it could not. Medicine could fight results, but 
there was a minute, imperceptible cause at work, insidi- 
ously, deep down in the nerve centres. What we call 
disease was simply the result. Could I reach it ? What 
was its nature ? Could I give the struggling life forces 
sufficient help in its deepest, direst emergencies ? If I 
could, life might be greatly lengthened, as well as made 
more comfortable. Reader — I invite your attention to 
the explanation and argument herein made. I hope you, 
or some other man, may be able to make improvements. 
I have thirty-five years of study in it. 

A. THOMPSON, M. D., 

567 Tremont St., Boston, Mass, 



ORIGIN AND CONTINUANCE 
OF LIFE. 



Shrouding our planet — nine miles deep — there is an 
ocean of oxygen-nitrogen and oxygen and hydrogen 
vapor, attracted by magnetic force existing in the earth, 
so strongly, that no other force has been able to disen- 
gage it, though the surface of the earth is whirling with it 
more than 1000 miles an hour and the whole mass of the 
earth and its shroud of gases is sweeping around the 
"Sun" with a velocity of 57,000 miles an hour. There 
is still another ocean of gases still more adherent than the 
other to the great magnet. Within the first there lives 
1,500,000,000 of human animals in conjunction with 
myriads of other life too numerous for an imagination to 
compare. In fact, the earth is a vast mass of life. What 
astonishes us the most is the innumerable individualities 
of these living things, and the individual modes of their 
living; yet there are but four great gases — oxygen, hy- 
drogen, nitrogen and carbon. 

Time, study and experiment have revealed to us the 
undoubted fact that these gasses originate individualities of 
species and living through a multiplicity of individual 
combinations of different quantities made from them. 
Once combined, there is found to be a natural law ex- 
isting that compels individual combinations to attract that 
which is their natural makeup until satisfied. So does 

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each defends its existence through the life force that 
is engendered by a chemical activity of their com- 
pound, which is assisted by the heating rays of the 
"Sun." The death of a drop of water brings to life a 
myriad of minute animals that were not seen in the 
water before, though examined by a powerful micro- 
scope, revealing another natural law — that nature 
is compensatory in its actional changes. That deep 
down in the unfathomable laws of the « 'Infinite" 
there is an infinitesimal life a human mind has never 
reached, whose minutia the human eye will never see. It 
is enough for us to see the results from the molecules that 
have made the magnificence of the universe. The 2,200,- 
000 suns within the radius of our telescopes, or within 
20,000,000 000 of miles of us, with their myriads of 
worlds, like ours, floating around them, nestling within 
the care of their warming rays, within the government of 
the same laws that govern ourselves, is a phenomenon of 
surprise. It is known from logical sequence that we have 
only looked upon the merest part of a universe that the 
human mind in its most extravagant imagination can never 
compass, all built from infinitesimal molecular elements 
and forces that are not susceptible to the most acute 
senses with which we have been endowed. Who shall 
say this system, devoid of chaos, was not built by intelli- 
gence and infinite power ? System is a result from in- 
telligence at practical procedure. System like this could 
never originate but through infinite intelligence. Without 
a complete knowledge of what the future was to be, 

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races able to think and compare have generally sought to 
preserve their present existence to the utmost limit. 

To the present moment a large proportion of the human 
race believe that life and the soul are one. That some 
transformation of the body — when so-called death comes — 
will fit them for existence in another world. So, too, 
from educational framing, there are others who believe 
that when the breathing stops we shall lie in some dor- 
mant state until on some day heaven will dictate, when 
we will rise again in our old form and material of body 
and live again, forever, on the newly reconstructed earth, 
not taking account of the common observation, that our 
dead bodies, or the earthly elements that compose them, 
are taken for food to raise other bodies through the natural 
transformations of the vegetable kingdom that absorb it — 
that it is impossible, under the natural laws, for one body 
to make two from the same amount of material. That it 
is self-evident that our decaying bodies are transformed 
into vegetation, or food for the living; that the food 
elements of the earth are being transformed into the 
creating power of producing the millions of forms that 
confront us, from the most beautiful to the ugliest; it 
can be shown that human organisms may exist without a 
soul and souls exist without a body; that organisms 
may only exist in practical fact and mobility, because an ' 
intelligent soul directs them, and inanimate organisms may 
live because they are attached to elements that combine 
around them, chemically, or from the law of natural 
affinity, to produce and reproduce their likeness. The 

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law governing the production and maintainance of indi- 
viduality has not yet become a matter of complete 
scientific knowledge. Only the complete fact remains to 
our observation; I shall try to show the cause. These 
old-time theories continue as matters of creed faiths in 
three-fourths of the civilized earth — in spite of education 
based upon the natural laws — as too sacred to question. 
They can do no harm and are incentives to good until 
we can show better. 

I fed a pig with food that contains nutritious elements as 
they come to U3 from oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and car- 
bon. He was chloroformed; the inside of the stomach was 
brought to view and the process of digestion was watched. 
When protoplasm had formed, under the glass of a powerful 
microscope, constructive cells formed; the assimilation, 
growth, motion, etc., of originating life could be plainly seen 
as the result of a chemical activity born of the completion of 
a chemical compound that was to make or help to con- 
tinue an animal organism. The completion of the chem- 
ical compound depended upon certain conditions in aggre- 
gate and then a self-superheating to ioo degrees in the 
stomach before this chemical activity would originate heat 
enough for motion. This leaves us no capricious choice 
of conclusion or discretion. No one can believe what 
his caprices may invent — we are compelled to believe 
from the self-evident facts and phenomena, and persons 
have no right to believe otherwise. Our observation as 
to the chemical origin of carbon force, which is self- 
evidently animal life force, is confirmed by the result, as 

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I have before stated. I positively introduced a com- 
pound of the elements from which food originates and I 
learned from continued observations in this line that the 
phenomenon of life only exhibited itself so long as the food 
elements given contained certain naturally placed, defi- 
nitely proportioned elements and preserved a certain 
chemical integrity — that the manifestations of life only 
continued as long as I kept up a chemical equilibrium of 
the natural food forces, such as life requires. The origin 
of the life and motion, observed, depended in no sense 
upon a capricious intelligence/ but wholly upon the chem- 
ical laws and the sustenation of chemical equilibrium; for 
the babe is a drivelling idiot, only exhibiting certain in- 
stincts given it by its mother's organism, viz: — desire for 
food, drink and warmth. It being a chemical compound, 
like the mother, the law of natural affinities would breed this 
instinctive desire. So every organism attracts its like and 
the desires of the organism made from and by the mother, 
transmits, self-evidently, the same desires as the mother's. 
All animal life begets its kind and instincts. From 
education and persistent purpose, after childhood, a 
person may change their moral conditions in defiance of 
inheritance. This is easily set aside by some determined 
volition born in the directing soul. So, Christ was right 
when he declared it our mission in life to overcome un- 
natural moral inheritances from the father and mother — 
the sins of the fathers, etc., inherited from many genera- 
tions that had preceded. What the structure of the body 
may have inherited must continue, under the law of in- 

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dividuality, except the directing intelligence of the soul 
may avoid much immorality. So do these laws tell us 
from their living instincts that the body exists from food 
life for the purpose of growing and forming soul life into 
such characteristics as shall be fit to continue soul life after 
it has parted from the body — for of what use is the body 
when the soul has outgrown it? Of what use is a soul 
that can and will only be an injury to existence for itself 
and others? Shall soul life, too, when as a worthless, 
useless shred, it leaves the body, go back to a re-creation 
as the elements of the body do? I do not observe any 
difference, in principle, between the moral and natural, 
or physical laws of the universe. Put your hand in the 
fire and pain will come to it in spite of any moral pre- 
sumption. Cut a tree away and another springs from the 
old root. A scar on the soul remains until we cure it. 
Natural law picks up decayed matter and makes the 
material into pure new forms. The decay of a drop of 
water originates a mass of animals that were not visible 
before. The seed was there. So perfect life comes 
only from such food as can produce it. 

What is life? It is the potential principle, or force, by 
whcih the organs of animals and plants are started and con- 
tinued in the performance of their several and co-operative 
functions — the vital force. Anything exhibiting animation, 
continued movement, or energy. The potential which 
continues the activity of a natural organism capable of 
function. That active principle which the soul uses in 
giving intelligent direction to any co-operative organism in 

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animals, a food product under the chemical laws, diamet- 
rically opposite to electric forces, which are magnetic. 
While but individuals, self-evidently, animals are from 
elements natural to the chemical law of affinities. Starting 
from these laws and that called electric, the one is a 
magnetic force and originates from elements antagonistic 
to life, while the other originates wholly from food ele- 
ments that originate and continue life. I think I shall be 
able to demonstrate this to be a selfevident fact and to the 
satisfaction of the reader. I shall avoid technical and 
scientific language as much as possible, that the reader may 
easily understand the matters we shall develop in proof of 
our assumption. 

Science, bred in the natural laws, gives a reason for its ex- 
istence that is incontrovertible, [t is an established fact and 
well accepted by the scientific world: "That any given 
chemical compound always contains the same elements com- 
bined in the same proportions ;" hence the individualities ex- 
isting under the law of affinities — the oak and pine growing 
in the same quality of earth, selecting from the mass around 
them the individual elements that make their individual 
structure and essence. So that each organ of the body in 
animals (man is an animal), under the chemical law of nat- 
ural affinity, selects from the current of nutrition we call the 
blood, that which originates their individual construction and 
individual elemental forces found adapted to their strength 
that prodivence, in the great soul of God, is law; that 
and function. I shall show you, as a selfevident matter, 
that we originate, live, and die under the natural laws; 

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these laws impose their penalties as imperatively as pain 
and crushing destruction comes from thrusting your hand 
into the massive machine, imponderable in weight, when 
running as an imponderable power. So will I show you 
how the infinitesimal forces, imperceptible to our senses, 
move and destroy, or build to life without imponderabilia. 
If we cease to take food, within a short time we die. 
This proves that life and its continuance comes from food 
elements, not from the elements that originate electrical 
force. Food products are now known to be composed 
of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon. That these 
natural elements, by analysis, are found to be the sum 
total of our constructive food. Electricity comes from 
deadly force, friction, sulphuric acid, bisulphate of mer- 
cury and zinc oxide. All of these are antagonistic to life, 
yet leading scientists, professors in our great institutions of 
learning, declare, or have said that electricty is life. It 
is an irritant, a magnetic force that through its irritative 
character, is able to compel the nervous system to in- 
creased activity for a time — compelling it to force func- 
tions, thereby giving a short period of relief, as the 
cathartic does the obstructed or constipated bowels. The 
cost of that relief is the same in both cases. The over- 
wrought, compelled nerve force, falls back exhausted, 
unable to execute the function it controls as well as it did 
before because no natural strength had been provided. 

Electricity, from the character of the antagonistic ele- 
ments it originates from, can never give the nervous 
system any life force, while a force taken from oxygen, 

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hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, the elements that origi- 
nate and continue life, self- evidently can. We shall, 
therefore, assume, as self-evident conclusions: 

1st — That our bodies are only a chemical compound, 
made from those earthly elements. That the nervous 
system is the source of all body strength and the seat of 
animal life. That its office is to execute the functions of 
the organs of the body. That it accumulates the strength 
to do this by absorbing a force evolved from our food 
elements while they are digesting in the stomach, much 
the same as certain chemicals in a galvanic battery tank 
evolves electricity. This force evolved from our digest- 
ing food and absorbed by the nerve centres, under the 
law of natural affinities, is known under the philosophy 
of our investigations, as animal life force. As I said 
before, if we cease to take food, we soon cease to have 
nerve force and die. 

2d — All articles of food capable of originating animal 
life are made from oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and car- 
bon, sulphur, phosphorus, chlorine, sodium, potassium, 
magnesium, iron, silicon, fluorine and calcium. 

3rd — From analytical observation these food elements, 
when traced to a complete assimilation, are manufactured 
into blood and carbon force, through a digestive process, 
within a stomach two degrees of heat in excess of the heat 
of the body, engendered by the unison of these elements. 
That this heat is necessary to produce chemical activity 
enough to produce carbon life force for the use of the 
nervous system. Therefore, we may assume that half of 

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the average nutrition taken by this process produces blood. 
That there is a corresponding amount of waste, when a 
person has obtained his natural growth. It is now 
known to science that if the nervous system does not have 
sufficient strength to expel this waste as fast as it accumu- 
lates, as a carbon deoxide, it originates poisonous acids, 
which, in turn, originate most of the chronic diseases 
from which we suffer, showing and proving to us that the 
maintenance of normal health requires that the nervous 
system shall be kept strong enough to keep this waste 
passing off, through maintaining normal functions. 

4th — That if the nervous system, through age, unusual 
wear or abuse, can only exist and exercise its function 
through natural support, then it should only be reinforced 
to sufficient strength by this same natural means, for such 
a reinforcement can only be effective and achieve normal 
health through natural means. Then what have we to 
do, looking these laws of God in the face? Imitate Him 
as nearly as we can. 

Jth — If the natural laws have shown us that normal 
life force can come to us through a chemical process in a 
human stomach and that all of the means used come from 
certain natural elements, and that those elements, through 
a well known chemical combination, construct and give 
life to such an organism as ours, may we not attempt to 
use these same elements, externally, through a chemical 
process, similar, to create natural life force and transmit it 
to aid our nervous system to maintain normal health, 
when it needs additional strength to do so? For how is 

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the weakened nervous system able to make our stomach 
take sufficient food and manufacture sufficient force or 
natural energy, except through the natural process we 
have described? God built this natural system, not I, or 
another. Then we will proceed to construct an artificial 
stomach for external use through external chemical means 
to do the same. If God has originated a system and told 
us plainly how to use it, where is the sacrilege of assump- 
tion when the purpose is humanity and natural results? 
If we analyize a human body it is found to contain 
oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, sulphur, phosphorus, 
chlorine, potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, fluorine, 
silicon, iron, hydrochloric acid, pepsin, trypsin, steapsin 
and amylolytic foment. If these elements have made the 
body and given it its life and functions in organism, as a food 
totality in chemical compound, then we must use the forces 
in this totality in compound, superheated in a confined glass 
receptacle, to, at least, the temperature of a digesting 
stomach at ioo°, that the proper chemical activity may 
ensue and evolve animal life force. Then, as carbon is 
always the force that evolves from the above combina- 
tion and chemical activity, carbon is our natural life force. 
// is animal life force! Now we will arrange our chem- 
icals, or individual elements, in groups for treatment that 
will extract their natural forces and pocket them in prepa- 
ration for a complete combination and superheating for 
the evolution of the life force we propose to make and 
transmit to the nerve centres. We shall avoid most of 
the waste these elements contain, and extract and pocket 

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their forces or their gases. Keep in mind that we are to 
make or extract a force and will mainly deal with forces. 
I shall use the elements in as definite a proportion as the 
best physiologists and chemists have found them and ex- 
tract their vitalities. 

I shall rely on the law of natural affinities, as before 
refered to, and that other rule: "Any given chemical 
compound always contains the same elements combined in 
the same proper dons." In obtaining my exact propor- 
tions, viz: That atoms of certain natural elements will 
combine with a definite amount of other atoms of other 
natural elements in a certain proportion and leave any ex- 
cess free. So do chemical combinations that make organ- 
isms like ours combine. The human body will take just 
so much of each element, naturally, and necessary for its 
desire to completion. So the natural laws aid me in 
getting definite proportions, for we cannot well measure 
forces. We will get as near to it as we can and the Lord 
will finish it up for us; for these great laws are a part of 
Him and govern His kingdoms as power governs machin- 
ery, only He is the only one that has been able to invent 
perpetual motion, to date. Who will be able to imitate 
that? 

Here is the list and proportions of the different elements 
that compose the human body, and from which its life 
force is manufactured for the nervous system : 

GROUP ONE. 

Oxygen 21 parts ") 

Hydrogen 7 parts v Total 44 

Nitrogen 16 parts ) 

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GROUP TWO. 

Sulphur 

Phosphorus 

Chlorine 

Potassium 

Sodium 

Magnesium 

GROUP THREE 

Calcium 
Fluorine 
Silicon 
Iron 

GROUP FOUR. 

Hydrochloric acid 
Pepsin 

GROUP FIVE. 

Trypsin 
Steapsin 
Amylolytic foment 



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Total I 



Total 47 
As I have said before, the first three great gases are the 
essential foods for everything that grows. Compared 
with oxygen in earth and air carbon is but one three-hun- 
dred thousandth part. This small bit of carbon is con- 
tinually uniting with oxygen in slow combustion, passing 
from one form to another and finally ending in carbon 
deoxide, or waste that is poisonous to us, which the heat 
of the "Sun" utilizes for the growth of the vegetable 
means of our living. This carbon deoxide, with its acid, 
semi-poisonous nature, if not expelled, causes nearly all of 

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the illness we suffer from. Hence the necessity for a re- 
inforcement of a weakened nervous system as a relief. I 
have found means to make this reinforcement a natural 
support. 

Again, I repeat, that from self-evident, common obser- 
vations, these are the material elements found from a 
chemical analysis of an adult human body, and these must 
be made to originate animal life force for the use of the 
nervous system which, in turn, uses it for the benefit of 
its organs, in care, in process of executing their functions. 
For use as an artificial stomach in which to combine our 
elements and originate life force we will use a glass bell- 
jar I 2x1 3 inches in size, and to render it gas tight we 
will set this on a rubber base having a collar, or a pair of 
collars — one to raise it an inch from the bottom and an- 
other connected to hug the outer rim of the jar to render 
it capable of holding our gases, or forces. We will have 
a stop-cock half-inch tube, to penetrate the lower collar 
from the outside, to conduct our forces to the inside as 
fast as made for combination. We transmit our second 
group to the bell-jar first, in nearly as definite propor- 
tions as we can, taking care to have an excess in all, 
knowing that an excess will remain free after the necessary 
combination, for it is better to have too much than too 
little of them. 

Our second group must be subjected to an excess of 
heat while confined in a closed crucible having a stop-cock 
pipe leading to the inside of our bell -jar, for there is no 
other easy way to compel it to disgorge its forces for our 

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combine. Later, to prevent a possible light, puffy ex- 
plosion, I put the first group into the bell-jar last. 

Our third group must be treated in the same manner, 
except that they are kept at a red heat in the crucible for a 
period of six hours. Its forces enter the bell-jar much 
cooled off, through a long pipe. In order to cool these 
we have a stop-cock near the jar where the forces cool 
and are let into the jar a little at a time. 

Our fourth group is prepared in a different manner. A 
two-quart closed glass jar is prepared, having a small neck 
and large body like a water bottle. It is half filled with 
equal parts of alcohol and water. Our hydrochloric acid 
and pepsin are put in and the bottle is corked tight and 
sealed with melted wax. Then two stop-cocks are 
screwed through the cork that we may add a new chlori- 
nated gas until the bottle is filled. The bottle is set into 
cold water, up to the rim, which is very slowly heated 
until the contents are up to I o I ° , and allowed to remain 
there for half an hour, when a force pump is applied to 
one stop-cock that may force gas inside the bottle, and a 
rubber pipe is connected with the other stop-cock and 
connected with that leading to the inside of the bell-jar. 
Now both the stop-cocks in the bottle cork are opened 
and the pump forces the impregnated gas into the bell-jar. 
We now have all of our elemental forces in one receptacle 
and only need heat to compel an increased chemical 
activity to give us the carbon we want. 

To get a radiating heat from a clean or waxed interior, 
I had previously introduced a polished copper drum that 

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received heat from the outside through a pipe and from 
the drum through another pipe or chimney, as a small ex- 
haust, that was much smaller. This I heated to 104 
and kept it there half an hour, then allowed the heat to fall 
to 100 , the temperature of digestion in the stomach of a 
healthy person. I now believed I had animal life force 
in my bell-jar. I connected an inhaling pipe with the in- 
terior of the bell-jar and inhaled it with little effect, raising 
my temperature one-eighth of one degree. I then con- 
ceived the idea of running an electric current through my 
force, believing they would unite and my new force would 
be carried to the nervous system, where the law of natural 
affinities would compel the nerves to absorb it. Here is 
where J learned that animal life force and electric force 
were antagonistic, for when I had prepared a net of wires 
inside the bell-jar, made my force and set a current of 
electricity going through that new force and myself, the 
appearance of my bell-jar and no alteration in my feelings 
told me the electric current had decomposed my combina- 
tion, but had not destroyed or injured my elements. For 
a period of fourteen years — giving it all the attention I 
could, with my other business — I labored to bring about 
an affinity between the two forces, because I knew there 
was no other way to get to the nerve centres without in- 
juring my carbon or life force that must retain its heat. It 
became necessary for me to consider that if I made a 
stronger affinity than the nerve affinity could overcome, 
the nerves could not disengage and absorb the new force. 
After long experiment with the law of natural affinities, 

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I created a feeble affinity between the two forces that met 
my expectations. 

The nervous system, by reaction, will repel a too heavy 
force sent against it; indeed, it will repel the slightest irri- 
tative force. I will give you an example. There is not 
a school of medicine in existence that will not admit but 
that drugs, or medicines, and disease miasms are alike in 
principle in their action in disturbing a healthy organism. 
Even light doses of belladonna will produce a case like 
scarlet fever. Other drugs will produce a likeness of 
chills and fever, typhoid fever and dysentery. Then 
what is claimed is true. If so, they should be governed 
by the .same rules in application and repulsion. How 
much do you take when you gj into John Brown's and 
catch the mumps, measles, small pox, diphtheria, &c? 
The contagious miasms floating in the air so lightly is im- 
perceptible to your senses. It requires from seven to 
fourteen days for that little infinitesimal dose to give you a 
sensible symptom; why should it require more to cure a 
man than it did to make him sick? Why are some dis- 
eases contagious and others are not? Why does Susie 
Brown, with her lymphatic temperament, catch every 
contagious or epidemic disease that comes along, while 
Angelina Fletcher, with her sensitive nervous system, sel- 
dom catches anything? The reason for this is plain. 
Diseases, as they appear to our observation, are the result, 
not the cause. The life forces can only expel an irritant, 
and never the insidious, shadowy, unrecognizable miasm. 
The minute character of contagious miasms will be shown 

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further along to be almost beyond imagination. It is a 
very light force that will not irritate a sensitive nervous 
system to repulsion. This fact taught me that I must use 
an imperceptible current of electricity, for two reasons — 
that my affinity with electricity might not be too strong, 
and that my electric current might not be irritative and 
create a reaction that would throw all of my life force to 
the winds. Living within this law of repulsion with which 
the nervous system has been endowed for self defense, lies 
the reason why some diseases are contagious and others 
are not; why light doses of medicine will cure when heavy 
doses will not. So, too, it settles the controversy between 
the infinitesimal dose and the heavier irritative drug that 
cannot stay and use its influence for cure. So I had to 
deal with the laws handling the infinitesimal forces and go 
to the minute contagious principles for instructions to get 
there. 

In the acceptance of antitoxine and its analogues, the 
law of the similars is fast absorbing the attention and 
approval of the scientific world. Reader, shall I 
argue the law that calls for infinitesimal forces farther? 
Verily I say unto you, we are growing in grace. If I 
have had to drop into the light forces to make my animal 
force stay in the nerve centers, you will ask me to answer 
this question, how can the nervous system absorb without 
reaction the force that comes from the digestion of a large 
meal of hearty food? It does not. Did you ever take 
the temperature of a healthy person three hours after taking 
such a meal? I have, many of them, for this very pur- 

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pose. It is not increased, neither is the pulse. Why? 
Can you tell me why after a hearty meal you are sleepy, 
stupid, dull, weak and half lifeless? You ought to have 
been stronger after such a meal. It is because your heavy 
meal carried too much force, overloaded your nerves and 
met with a reaction, when you lost all you received from 
it, and some that you had before. That is why you were 
weak and tired so long after it. Let me advsie you, reader. 
Gastric juices secrete just fast enough to take care of a 
reasonable amount of food. It will digest according to its 
quantity. Divide your meals into five. Take a little 
more than half what you want, and see how much more 
strength you get from it. Light loads will digest in three 
hours. Don't eat hay. Poor food will use as much 
gastric juice as good while digesting. 

Under the laws which I have discussed, that gastric 
juices will take care of that part of an overload that it can; 
that the rest remains free, undigested. It may sour and 
vitiate that which has been digested. Here is the law of 
the small forces again. If we eat as fast as gastric juice is 
created, to supply our system as fast as nature craves, it 
might be better to eat five small meals in a day. I say 
again, emphatically, I have tried this on imny a dyspeptic 
always with success. I have always found more danger 
from the overload than from the kind of food taken. An 
overload brings reaction, sure; I repeat it. You see how 
this imperative principle runs through all the natural laws. 
Large power is the result of a long continued impercepti- 
ble infinitesimal growth that finally ends in such an aggre- 

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gation. So chrome diseases work upon vou until you are 
a wreck from deoxides* I have told you how they origi- 
nate, passing from the stage of acids originated in too long 
retained carbon deoxides, that first beget irritations and 
then inflammations; how the building of the nerve strength 
to the normal energy that, itself, finally throws off the 
impurities that have lain as deposits for a long time, irri- 
tating the nervous system. If normal strength can pro- 
duce such results — can bring health so simply — how long 
will it be before this mode of treatment and the high po- 
tency of medicines will supplant drugging? I am dealing 
with researches where the work of man has not delved 
before. These are not my opinions but the natural results 
coming from the philosophies of the natural laws. 

Starting off with these instructions that these laws gave 
to me two years and a half since, I began experiments, 
first upon myself, and then on old invalids, to show 
the effect of an increase of animal life force upon people 

loaded with acids from the carbon deoxides. Mrs. C 

had been a nervous wreck, almost unable to walk, for 
many years. She was pale, fat, cold and exhausted — 
full of chronic rheumatism and the deoxide deposits that 
caused it. There was an eruption on the skin — the 
affected parts were swollen — she was out of breath from 
but little movement. She was nearly blind — amouratic. 
Her feet were cold and the hose made her feel as if they 
had been wet with cold water. She was extremely sen- 
sitive to cold — wore a heavy wrap in hot weather, in 
spite of a large amount of apparent adipose. Here was a 

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case loaded with deoxides and water, which the nervous 
system was unable to throw off because of weakness, and 
that weakness had been produced by a long continued 
irritation from the gathering deoxides and overtask. She 
was not diseased. Very few nervous women are. Her 
nervous system was not strong enough to keep the waste 
passing off. I reinforced it with the vital force I had 
created — carrying it to the nerve centres in waves of 
electricity so small she was unable to know that she was 
taking anything. Within four weeks after she had taken 
it — 26 times, one hour each time, with intermission of 
every other fifteen minutes, to give time for assimilation, 
to prevent any possibility of reaction from overload, 
the pale bloated appearance gave place to a woman of 
three-quarters her original size. Soon she was warm, 
with a healthy flushed look — her rheumatism was gone, 
she could see as well as ever. She had a good appetite — 
her digestion and power of assimilation had returned; 
constipation had disappeared; she was strong and well. 
Why? Her nervous system had been reinforced with its 
own natural life force every day until it had attained 
strength enough to control the functions of the body, 
normally, and it was held there by repeated reinforce- 
ments until it had dispelled the cause of its exhaustion — 
the load of carbon deoxides — known in the old time as 
carbonic acid. Now the nervous system was in normal 
strength and function and was able to make the stomach 
take food enough, digest it and make life force enough to 
hold it there. It is now able to care for itself and main- 

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tain life at the normal standard. It is two years since, 
and, with the exception of treatment for a few colds, she 
has retained all we gained for her without further rein- 
forcements. The case exhibits what I have thought of 
and worked for over fouiteen years. If I could establish 
this, it would be the end of stimulants, tonics and pois- 
onous drugging, and physicians would use this instead. 
I might as well mention it here, as it belongs to the same 
system in category: Inflammations and irritations are only 
amenable to medicine, and it must be made auxiliary to this, 
unless we are willing to wait for a removal of the cause. 
Reinforcing life does not remove acute inflammations, un- 
less that inflammation is caused by deoxide deposits, as 
before stated. Removing a cause must remove the result. 
It remains to be seen if medicine in infinitesimal doses, as 
small as the contagious miasm of disease, cannot be made 
an auxiliary that will cure a case more rapidly, in simple 
assistance only. What you see in a diseased condition is 
not the disease, but the result. While delving and ex- 
perimenting with the infinitesimal forces dictated by the 
natural laws, I found a new law that furnishes a positive 
system for medical application under the law of the sim- 
ilars, as exhibited in antitoxine, vaccination and physic 
for diarrhoea. As drugs, or medicines and diseases are 
self- evidently the same in principle in their disturbance of 
a healthy organism, they should be governed by and 
under the same law, by the same rules in application of 
medicine to disease, as a curative. I have already shown 
how infinitesimal the force of a dose of mumps must be. 

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We have never reached its minutia in potentizing rem- 
edies. It is so much so it has to be as light as the gases 
I take my force from to be able to float in the air. Our 
potentization has never reached that. Then how light 
should the similar remedy be? Or, speaking more tritely, 
why should it require more force to cure a man than it 
does to make him sick? It should not require as much. 
Why? Nine- tenths of cases of sickness will get well 
themselves if you let them alone. What does it prove? 
That there is a powerful recuperative or life force, acting 
in self defense, that resists the encroachments of disturbing 
disease miasms. That in most cases, this force will even 
throw off contagious diseases — we call it allowing them 
to run their course. We take medicine to lessen the 
severity of such cases, or save a possible danger. What 
is the rule of the apparent law? That it should not 
require as much force to cure a man as it does to make 
him sick? Why? When we disturb a man's organism 
with a disease miasm, we do it in spite of the resistance 
of the man's natural recuperative or defending life force, 
and when we cure, we cure with its help. Now the 
law involved has shown us that but one dose of mumps 
has been taken, and in spite of its infinitesimal character 
and its being exposed to heavy incidental eating, drug 
and other influences for seven to fourteen days, at the 
end of that time, it shows its first sensible symptom. 
Again keep in mind that drugs and diseases are the same 
in principle in their action on a healthy organism — what 
rule does the law imperatively dictate? The medicine 

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must be potentized in alcohol, or pure water, until its 
particles are as fine as those of the gases. It must be 
similar to the symptoms of the disease, and but one dose 
must be given. I have tried it and the result is astonish- 
ing. Now it has been determined that there is no end to 
the division and subdivision of particles of matter. There- 
fore, that condition can be reached and the active prin- 
ciple be held in alcohol. It has been shown conclusively 
that drugs weakened one drop to a hundred of alcohol 
each time, beaten severely by succussion — changed and 
weakened one drop to a hundred of pure alcohol, two 
hundred times — have been used as a curative after heavy 
drugging with most astonishing and satisfactory results. 
Only one dose being administered. Natrum Muriaticum 
(common salt), weakened and broken up to the 200 
potency, has cured old chronic dyspepsias, chills and 
fevers, and other chronic diseases, but one dose being 
administered, while the patient was taking Mvy millions 
times as much of the crude salt at every meal with no 
result on the disease, or blocking injury to the infinitesimal 
dose at work influencing the nerve centres. There is no 
doubt about this. The test has been made thousands of 
times on as many different people. What does it prove? 
That heavy attacks of drugs are repelled, defending the 
infinitesimal influence at work in the nerve centres, yet 
too weak to irritate the nerves to a reaction to throw it 
off. The sewer gas that bubbles up through your sink 
traps, or floats in the air, too light to be perceptible to 
the senses, too light for the nervous system to feel and 

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repel, is now known to be the most dangerous to the 
organism. In this, as I have said before, lies the law 
that makes some diseases contagious, while others are not. 
The weaker your nervous system is, the more likely it is 
to admit miasmatic disease. Now here comes another 
fact not before tabulated. A medicine will, everything 
being equal, cure a disease just as fast as it can produce a 
drug likeness and no faster. Let us have a more trite 
statement — A drug acts fast or slow in proportion to the 
amount you give. A double dose of physic will act 
quicker than half as much, and more powerfully. Here 
is the law of time for the repetition for a dose of medicine, 
in case your dose at first is too small. If equal to the 
disease in force, but one dose is necessary. How are 
you going to reach the disease miasm within the nerve 
centres with a drug or antidote so strong that the pro- 
tective law of life reacting is obliged to expel it at once? 
These are practical facts forced upon my faith in spite of 
my education in visible and sensible forces. These facts 
compel me to know why christian science is beating the 
alopathic medical world in doing nothing — allowing the 
recuperative forces to cure the patient, in curable cases. 
Is there a light breaking? God is in it. These great 
laws may be, and I believe are, a part of His being, and 
when we know all of their attributes and purpose will we 
all be a part of the infinite? Is. this to be a part of the 
rule of the Great One, who holds all within His being? 
Whose being encloses all that exists? Who has made us 
for a purpose? So in these laws do we find immortality 

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for everything. The line of demarkation between the 
body and the soul. That one can exist without the other. 
Why a body should not exist after the soul has outgrown 
it. How this investigation forces these facts upon us. 

During her life — with the assistance of the father — the 
mother, from her own life made from the food she takes, 
grows her child in the womb as a part of herself, until its 
organism has been completed, then it is born to the world 
to grow a soul. It takes the mother's or father's nature 
and instincts at first, before leaving the womb; eats and 
makes animal life for itself, while the mother's mind and 
its environments shape the character of its growing soul. 
Following this vein of thought that developes the individ- 
uality of the soul and body, we are compelled to this 
retrospect. The activity of the soul is governed in both 
development and power of demonstration by the condition 
of the organism that allows it means of demonstration. 
You cannot get music out of a piano when it is entirely 
out of tune, the organism must be right in structure 
and health. There are times when a diseased organism 
forbids demonstrations of mentality, or alters it as the 
brain is altered or diminished in vitality or structure. This 
is always traced to a diseased organism, whose moral 
symtoms in diagnosing disease are of as much value to the 
physician as the physical. Mentality may be suspended 
by disease, or there may be an absence of the soul during 
a trance state, and yet the body lives and manufactures its 
"own life. Soon that mentality returns, showing that it 
has lived, too. This proves the individuality of both. 

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The tree has an organism and grows without the aid of 
intelligence to direct it, which is unnecessary. It grows 
immovably within the chemical elements that have con- 
structed it. So does every mobile, living thing have a 
soul whose size, like ours, corresponds with the size of its 
opportunities. This is proved by the trained animal who 
is often developed to almost the intelligence of the human 
species. This development of mind has often been suffi- 
cient to overcome a weaker and control it. The control 
of the most civilized and intelligent people of the world, 
over the others, are evidences of the truth of what we 
speak. A man developes his soul correspondingly with 
the training and forced developement of his mental 
organs. 

Now we have proved, over and over again, that at 
death no part of the elements from which the body is 
constructed is lost. It simply goes back to the elements 
it was taken from — passing through a chemical change to 
become as before. The child's soul is born from the 
mother's, and is called instinct until it is educated. This 
is a self-evident fact in natural results, and not a miracu- 
lous transaction. All is born of the great natural laws 
that are now known to be infinite and incapable of being 
changed or obstructed, because they are apparently a part 
of the great Infinite soul of God. How can an infinite 
character grown be less immortal than materials? 

But, reader, I think it will be more interesting to you 
if I trace physical life from its origin and show you the 
argument that proves it from self-evident phenomena — 

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how it originates from the food we eat through a chemical 
action in a human stomach. How we feed animals, 
then chloroform them, watch the digestion and origin of 
life in them during the chemical action that originates and 
evolves the force we have spoken of as originated for the 
benefit of the nervous system, that, in turn, moves our 
organism to usefulness and the development of the soul. 
Some say that, eventually, the immoral soul is treated 
as waste matter and becomes useless. It is self-evident 
that God uses all materials over and over again. Will 
He do less with the soul, or spiritual force? 

The man who had but one talent and was ashamed of 
his small ability and refused to improve it before the 
vorld, he joined him to the useful man — as a reward — 
who had improved upon his ten talents. If a soul is 
found unfit for use, as an individual, why not return him 
to a larger soul life by merging him with one who is fitted 
for progress? Is there a school for small souls in the 
great beyond? This is a part, or shadow of evidence, 
when one man controls the intelligence of another, that 
all are born under the same law. The chemical force, 
small or large, that animates and controls an animal 
organism, is another thing. A temporary affair to submit 
to the control or direction of the other for the evident 
purpose of development and progress of mind, then home 
again. "Biology, the science which deals with living 
things, and the phenomena exhibited by them, may be 
divided into two great branches, viz: — Morphology, 
which treats of the forms and structure of living bodies, 

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and physiology, which attempts to explain the modes of 
activity exhibited by them during their lifetime, and may, 
therefore, be defined as the science which investigates the 
phenomena presented by the textures and organs of healthy 
living beings; or, in short, the study of the actions of 
organisms in contradistinction to that of their shape and 
structure. ' ' 

"The organic, or living world, is naturally divided into 
the animal and vegetable kingdoms." We shall only 
investigate the former, to learn if it shall support, prima- 
rily, our use of the forces of diiFerent elements in the 
origin of the life force we have made. The phenomena 
of the origin of life force, from the elements, when com- 
bined and heated by the chemical activity of a certain 
natural combination, is most interesting. We have said 
that our food comes from the great gases. We have 
taken them as the proper elemental life producers from 
which to extract our life force. The stomach takes them 
when changed in form from gas to food. We will follow 
the changes taken on, or compelled by the chemical treat- 
ment of this food in the stomach, to see if we arc justified 
in claiming that life is a distinct force, or if that force 
originates by compounding the elements named, or from 
chemical action in the tissues after absorption. 

Protoplasm is the first substance from which growing 
textures originate. It is the jelly-like substance existing 
after foods are masticated. It is, as I said before, the 
compound from which our organism is built and renewed. 
Through coming into contact with the gastric juice, after 

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mastication, k begins to generate heat and consequent 
digestion. This chemical activity and heat can only be 
sustained by the completion of a certain compound, be- 
cause the living phenomena will be exhibited only as long 
as we preserve the chemical integrity and equilibrium of 
the food elements. This proves that we must have 
oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen in near natural equilib- 
rium of combination in the compound, or lose the 
phenomena we expect. We must also have both heat 
and moisture at 9 8° at the onset. 

"If the chemical integrity of protoplasm be destroyed 
and its death produced, many new substances appear, among 
which are representatives of each of the great chemical 
groups," proving that all the laws of nature are compen- 
satory, and the laws which develope the spiritual nature 
and those which generate animal organisms and life are at 
work from the same principles. Follow this one: 

As I have stated before — We feed a pig with new milk. 
Within fifteen minutes we put it under chloroform and 
open its stomach to view. As I have said before, first 
protoplasm forms from digestion — then life and activity, 
or assimilation. Under our very eyes, in the mass of 
elemental material, or food, life force is seen to originate 
and move the cells forming as if they were alive. From 
what cause? It can only be ascribed to a chemical 
activity that springs from the completion of a compound 
of natural elements heated to ioo°, when the nervous 
system absorbs and uses this force. Did you ever see 
how much heat is engendered in a "galvanic battery" 

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tank? There would be no force without it. Put in the 
water, then the cold bi-sulphate of mercury, there is no 
activity; put in your cold zinc oxide. There is still no 
activity. Now add the cold sulphuric acid. In a 
moment, the glass tank will be too hot to hold in your 
hand. The completion of your compound for a certain 
purpose has done its work. 

I state this in as plain and homely a way as I can, so 
the unscientific reader may get the general idea. [ am 
not writing a book for the scientific world, but for the 
people. It may do good in furnishing a thought for both. 
In the propagation of animal life force, you see that three 
things are necessary — suitable nutritive material, moisture 
and warmth. From fear that I may be at fault in be- 
lieving from actual test that nitrogen will not combine 
with the other elements without superheating all, I do so 
heat them. So the natural ioo° heat of the stomach 
assists the combination it has to digest. It would not 
digest in the stomach of a dead man, though all the gastric 
juices were there. Here again we show you the differ- 
ence in origin between the elemental or carbon life forces 
and the magnetic, or electric forces. One originates 
from violent friction, or deadly chemical elements, antag- 
onistic to life, and the other from the wholesome, harm- 
less food forces. In the digestive process in the stomach 
it furnishes the additional heat the combination will not 
furnish alone. In the propagation of life from the cold 
elements, or food elements, I furnish artificial heat to the 
natural temperature that will produce the same evolution 

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as in a healthy human stomach. 

You now ask me how I know that I have the forces of 
animal life through this process? I cannot measure these 
forces with a meter, or guage, recording from pressure. 
Neither will temperature record it because we have to 
approach the nervous system so lightly and slowly, to 
prevent irritation, rapid pressure and consequent repul- 
sion or reaction. We must read the conditions from the 
phenomena presented. The infinitesimal character of 
the force compels it. Too much oxygen will suf- 
focate you. Too much of any element will disturb. 
I will tell you how I know I have a reinforcement of 
animal life force — by the results I obtain in cases that are 
not susceptible to other means, not even food, when the 
system is not able to digest and assimilate it. Then I 
know that I have the forces of animal life. Here is a 

case in test: A Mrs. W from Minneapolis, Minn., 

age 71 — in perfect health. For seven years she had been 
a nurse, using "massage" largely until she had transmitted 
a large part of her life force to others; at least she had 
given others more of life than the capacity of her stomach 
and food could furnish. Slowly she failed for years, until 
she was deathly weak from no apparent cause. She was 
out of breath from little effort. She was weak and tired 
in her nervous system. I told her that my machine was 
a baby, just learning to do natural work; that there was 
one question I was anxious to settle, viz: was I producing 
natural life force? Could I reinforce the nerves with their 
own natural life force? If I was, unlike a stimulant, in a 

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person as healthy as herself, the strength would stay. 
How? In her present weakened condition, without dis- 
ease, or change of function, except from the insufficiency 
of nerve life — if I had nerve life— that nerve life would 
bring the nervous system up to normal strength, when 
normal functions would return and the stomach would 
take the normal amount of food and manufacture the nor- 
mal amount of life force, when the normal amount of 
strength would result. In her case— with no medicine, 
or other treatment, she came back to her natural strength 
within an hour and has remained so for nearly two years; 
but she has avoided the cause of her disability. Diseased 
conditions compel slow feeding. Ordinarily, the nerve 
strength must be supported until it can get rid of the de- 
oxides. The same result has been attained in others, but 
the majority of cases originate as I have before stated. 
Let me repeat it again, it is so essential to know, viz: I 
said that it was self-evident that, in healthy cases, "Half 
of our food was manufactured into blood after it had 
evolved life force for the nervous system, when it became 
simply a current of nutrition for constructive purposes. 
If so much is manufactured, then there is a corresponding 
amount of waste to make room for it. That waste is as 
much under the control of the nervous system as is the 
nutrition. If the nerves are too weak to compel the ex- 
cretory organs to expel it, those organs and the tissues 
become loaded with it. It is known in science as carbon 
deoxides. The longer it stays the more it becomes acid 
and semi-poisonous. The acids that produce rheumatism, 

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swellings, dyspepsias, liver complaints and kidney dis- 
eases, as I have said before, all originate from this. It is 
the cause of most all chronic diseases. You can now see 
the prospective purpose in the origin of this mode of re- 
inforcing the nervous system with its own natural life 
force to enable it to defend itself from destruction by body 
poison. If the cause of a thing is eliminated, the result 
must go with it; but our invention creates only natural 
strength. It cannot reduce an imflammation or irritation 
causing pain, and we cannot wait for days or weeks for 
returning strength of nerve to expel the cause, but we 
must use the proper remedy, as an auxiliary, to reduce 
the irritation or inflammation, while the increased nerve 
force expels the old deposits. In old diseases, not 
organic, medicine is not always necessary. The rein- 
forced nervous system takes care of this itself. 

I have told you how imperatively the law of cure de- 
mands only the shadow of a medicine, in cases coming 
from a contagious source, or the influence of changing 
temperatures, overwork, abuse, etc. ; but the law both 
selects and administers the remedy and no man has the 
right to any discretion or opinion in that. The law of 
the similars is as inexorable as the chemical laws. Indeed 
it is a chemical law. Suppose you are called to a man 
that has taken a deadly dose of arsenic but a few minutes 
before — the chemical laws imperatively command you to 
administer the hydrated protoxide of iron at once. If 
you do not have it, scrape the rust from a piece of old 
iron into water and have the patient take it into his 

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stomach. It unites with the arsenic to neutralize and 
absorb its poison. Under this natural law, a simple 
destroys a deaply poison. So you see it is adaptaion 
under the natural laws and not the violence of powerful 
chemicals that produces the mending result. So was the 
aphorism born — "knowledge is power." In this degree 
do we approach the Infinite in the adaptation of His great 
system. On the same principle shall we find our level 
there as we do here when the soul is born to its new life. 
Is the parable of the talents true? 

Is life a force? It is self-evident that the movements 
of the universe is governed by magnetic force. The earth 
is a vast magnet. How? The rays of light from the 
"Sun" in their direct plunge through our atmosphere to 
the earth, loads the earth and its atmosphere with elec- 
tricity. How? Friction. This creates the thunder 
storms. Meantime the earth absorbs it, making it a vast 
magnet, attracting to its centre, thus giving apparent 
weight to all of the materials on its surface. This is a 
magnetic force produced by friction, as before stated. 
This same force can be produced by the chemical action 
of deadly poisons combined. Sulphuric acid, bi-sulphate 
of mercury, zinc oxide, all in water. These can kill the 
animal forces. Consequently, animal life must come, as 
I said before, from other elements — the harmless oxygen, 
hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon. The smaller elements, 
combined with them, assist in producing this animal force. 
They are the infinitesimal parts in the right place and just 
as necessary as the larger. For instance, phosphorus has 

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to be kept submerged in water. Placed upon a dry 
board, it unites with oxygen so rapidly, under the law of 
natural affinity, that it soon takes fire and is consumed. 
It can only exist as an individual element — as phosphoru s 
— when combined with some other elements. I speak o* 
this to show how these small bits in the human anatomy 
aid in the production of carbon, which is our life force. 

When, under the circumstances named, by combustion, 
phosphorus loses its identity, it rapidly developes 
"ozone." If an element loses its identity by combina- 
tion with others, making new forms or conditions, in time 
it returns, proving that all nature is immortal and its laws 
are compensatory. That force and heat is always gen- 
erated by changing atoms into combination, as the conflict 
for electric force in combination for magnetic force. 
Laws govern every change and combination of the ele- 
ments for a purpose and are immutable — unchanging. 
We, being one of the cardinal compounds, produced by 
the law of natural affinity from parts of the elements, we 
are liable to all the chance changes in the drift of the 
natural elements — under the direction of the intelligence 
our industry and study can originate for our protection. 
So, and in such a manner and purpose, "knowledge is 
power" for such. 

Do you know how much the percentage of mor- 
ality has been lessened, under sanitary laws, in Massa- 
chusetts during the last 25 years? Not long since, the 
average of longevity was 33 years. It is now over 38. 
All of this benefit to life and health has come from a 

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knowledge of and from the development of the natural 
and chemical forces, in protection, originating from newly 
discovered combinations of the elements. All of these 
changes originate force. Force has been believed to be 
immaterial; it is now known to be molecular; that it is 
produced as I have stated. That it is the life force of 
definitely combined, molecular materials; the moving, 
animating element in every living animal or other creature 
existing, while materials can take no movement as such, 
unless forced or attracted by magnetic force. It is quite 
marvelous that this door has been open so long and we 
have just made the first attempt to produce a chemical 
or animal life force such as God has been so long exhibit- 
ing to us — telling us, even, how to do it. Poisonous 
doses of drugs, so injurious, must eventually find an end, 
for they are like the disease miasms in their effects and, 
like diseases, leave a bad streak behind in more instances 
than we know. The bad health they make is generally 
ascribed to a bad liver, when the liver may be only 
mourning the invasion of constant dragging. It is true 
that the nerves and glands suffer most. Now the more 
reasonable theory of cure comes to us. Keep in mind, 
the nerves are the seat of animal life and live to get their 
strength from the food through the law of affinity that 
turns life force over to it from digesting food, products 
received from the natural laws. Keep in mind, half the 
food we eat is manufactured into blood by the same 
process that originates force for the nerves. Still keep in 
mind, if half the food is made into blood there must be 

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an amount of waste, to coincide, to make room for it. 
This waste is known to be a carbon deoxide that gen- 
erates semi-poisonous acids, which create nearly all of the 
chronic diseases we suffer from. Then, to remove the 
cause of these diseases, it becomes necesaary for us to re- 
inforce the weakened nervous system with its own natural 
force, as I have described, to give it strength to defend 
itself as best it can from the impure deposits. The effect 
from constipated bowels exhibits a condition such as I claim. 
A natural cure is such as God would make. We have 
demonstrated a thousand times that it can be done by 
natural means. This is all of it in a nutshell. 

Having such means at our command, it is safe to say 
the people can be guarded from age and decay — even 
disease — making it possible, under perpetual care, to 
probably double the usual time to live. After putting 
aged people into a healthy condition of normal strength, 
they have repeatedly told me that they seemed to be 
carried back to the faculties of ten to thirty years ago. 

On myself, at 65, I took it every day for a year. It 
returned my grey hair to nearly its natural color, at 30. 
People noticed and remarked that I had the appearance of 
a person about 40 years of age, when I was 65. I cer- 
tainly went back to forty in my physical vigor and activ- 
ity. 

Without these self-evident results in the application of 
natural science, for the first time so revealed and applied, 
I should never have dared to claim that natural life could 
be so much prolonged. At first, the assumption seems so 

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idiotic that the people would have good reason for a harsh, 
critical response, or laughter. If we may believe Jewish 
history, when people lived on cereals, fruits and milk, 
they lived until centuries of time brought its rarest jewels 
of wisdom to them; until many generations lived at one 
time to drink of purity in a long cultivation of moral life 
in accumulation that had never found its way to parch- 
ments or libraries. Then the tent and free air was home, 
and the flocks and herds and herbage of the fields gave 
the freshest foods to the people. Who shall say that we 
may not eventually seek such modes of perpetuating life 
and health again? It has already been adopted as a treat- 
ment for consumptives; why not for the safety and per- 
petuation of health and vigor, as in the old time? The 
struggle for wealth and unhealthy comforts must end 
somewhere, for a few will soon own it all and the great 
body of the people will be driven to the fields and forests 
again. If from no other reason, long continued pros- 
perity, that gives killing luxuries, will bring that reaction 
that has been the ruin of empires and nations in the past, 
when nations will begin again with primitive habits, and 
nearer the natural, will bring them nearer to health and 
its attending longevity again. Or, shall we voluntarily 
mend again from the wisdom gleaned from others' ex- 
perience? Perhaps the past will leave our egotism some- 
thing to stay. So in the study of time and circumstance 
the world may remould. 



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ADAPTATION AND APPLICATION 

OF THE LIFE PRODUCING 

ELEMENTS AS FOOD. 



The life force we make may vitiate all our nervous 
energy with foreign influences if not pure. How shall 
we select the best food to feed our lives healthily? 

The enormous adulteration of food now in progress, 
compels me to offer, as a completion of my system, an 
examination of foods and their adaptation in the produc- 
tion of the life forces. The nearer to nature, the better. 
I cannot think of a better axiom for a text in this discus- 
sion. Food is a substance, which, when introduced into 
the body, supplies material which renews some structure 
or maintains some vital process. This is substantially 
correct so far as it relates to the substances that supply all 
our nourishment. It is to the idea that food should sup- 
port or increase vital functions — reinforce and continue 
our lives. It is a fact that no one kind of food can com- 
pletely furnish every article, or material, which the body 
requires, though people can live on incomplete diet, if it 
furnishes the great staples. As in animal life, supply and 
result may be as imperfect as moral training, yet live. We 
may be a part of a physical man and live, yet not able to 
meet all the requirements of a perfect individual. Some 
inferior nations live on rice and water. To attain a per- 

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feet physical manhood, it becomes necessary for us to 
select our life forces from a variety of foods that shall most 
embody the materials a healthy, well made body should 
contain. So, too, there are foods better adapted to attain 
this than are many others that are incidentally taken in the 
haphazards of life. There are compound foods, and there 
are others that contain but one of the necessary elements, 
or which are incorporated without change (fats). Other 
foods are more valuable because they are more readily 
changed into the substance of the body, or act more read- 
ily and quickly in sustaining vital functions — and these 
may be called easily digested and assimilated foods. 

Others are useful and competent to the poor because 
they supply a greater quantity of nutriment at a smaller 
cost. It is the agreeable foods that are less usefal to body 
and health. Some foods are classed according to the 
source from whence they are derived, as animal and veg- 
etable foods; and others according to their density, as 
fluids and solids. There are foods which nourish one 
part of the body, and others that best sustain one chief 
vital action and are called flesh formers, or heat produc- 
ing. Some contain both. Foods are derived from every 
department in nature as natural productions: earth, air, 
water solids and gases, from substances that are living and 
organic, or inanimate and inorganic. The notion of food 
as a solid substance being most useful, as derived wholly 
from animal and vegetable cereals, while comprehensive, 
is too exclusive, since the water we drink, the air we 
breathe and certain minerals found in the earth are no less 

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important as foods. It is no less interesting to note how 
frequently these are combined in one food. Both water 
and minerals are found in flesh and vegetables, whilst one 
or both of the component parts of the air, viz: oxygen 
and nitrogen, are distributed through every kind of food. 
We may add food to food, supply the wants of the body 
by so doing, and we may, within certain limits, substitute 
one nutritious element for another as our appetites may 
crave a change in taste. 

There seems to be an indissoluble bond existing between 
all the sources of food. There are the same elements in 
flesh as in flour, and the same elements in animals as in 
vegetables. In fact the animal is made, mainly, from the 
vegetable kingdom. The vegetable draws both water 
and minerals from the soil; at the same time it absorbs 
oxygen, nitrogen and vaporized oxygen and hydrogen 
from the air, and is then eaten to make life for all classes 
of animals. The vegetable, while growing, receives from 
the animal the air it throws out in respiration and lives 
and grows from it, and, at length, it receives the animal 
itself and the refuse it throws off. This is largely the food 
of the plant, showing us how nature is compensatory in 
kind. So you see animals may virtually eat their own 
bones in the process of the natural laws. 

Food is essential to maintain heat, and to reinforce and 
maintain the structures under the action of life and exer- 
tion. The importance of the latter is most apparent, 
since the wasting of the body is really a decay of life that 
must be repaired. The body may waste for a time and 

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live, but it rapidly dies when the source of heat is re- 
moved. 

The production of carbon, or heat in the body, so re- 
markable in its process, results only from the chemical 
combination of the food elements in definite proportion. 
It is called food combustion. The production of heat 
from chemical alteration is best illustrated by putting, or 
mixing, cold oil of vitrol or sulphuric acid and water 
together. The mixture becomes so hot that you cannot 
hold the glass vessel containing it in your hand. Just so 
the heating of green grass in stacks, or barley in process 
of malting, exhibits this same production of carbon, which 
is really animal life force. 

In the food materials for the human body to use for 
life and structural purposes, this action in the body is not 
restricted to one body alone, but does so with all; yet it 
is chiefly due to the combination of three elements — 
oxygen, hydrogen and carbon — and requires for support 
in the stomach, the presence of starch, sugar and fat. 

Professor Franklin makes a striking exhibit in a lecture 
before the Royal Institute in London. Here are his find- 
ings tabulated. He shows the amount of heat generated 
from only ten grains of certain leading foods during their 
complete combustion in the body, and the force which 
scientific calculations have shown to be equivalent to that 
amount of heat: 



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In combustion 
raises pounds of 
water 1° Fahren- 
heit. 



Which is equal 

to lifting pounds 

one foot high. 



10 grs. dried Flesh 
10 grg. dried Albumen 
10 grs. dried Sugar 
10 grs. dried Arrow Root 
10 grs. Butter 
10 grs. Beef Fat. 




10.128 

9.920 

6.647 

7,766 

14.421 

16.142 



This shows that an ounce of dried flesh, or lean meat, 
would increase the temperature of 70 pounds of water 1 ° 
Fahrenheit, or a gallon of water 7 , if burnt in the body. 
An ounce of fresh butter, in like manner, would produce 
nearly ten times as much heat. 

It is shown by this that the division of foods into two 
classes, heat generators and flesh formers, should not be 
arbitrarily adopted, for while a food in renewing flesh 
also produces heat, and, while the heat generating food is 
acting, it also produces flesh in the form of fat, packed 
into the tissues without digestion, but simple separation. 

It is known that the structures of the body are in a 
state of continual change, so that atoms of an element 
which are present now may be gone an hour hence. So 
do the structures waste and require renewal ; but the re- 
newal substance must of the same nature as that wasted, 
so that bone must be renewed by bone, water by water, 
flesh by flesh and fat by fat. The body must be kept 
the same as nature intended and provided. It is neces- 
sary to supply to each part of the body the very same 
kind of material that it has lost by waste. 

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It remains for us, therefore, to acquire some idea of 
what such repairing substances are, or should be. The 
following is a statement of the principal materials of which 
the human body is composed: 

Flesh contains water, fibrine, fat, albumen, gelatine, 
compounds of lime, phosphorus, soda, potash, magnesia, 
silica, sulphur and iron. 

Blood contains the same elements as flesh. 

Bone is composed of cartilage, gelatine, fat and salts of 
lime, magnesia, soda and potash. These hold in combi- 
nation, phosphoric acid. 

Cartilage consists of chondrine, salts of soda, potash, 
lime, phosphorus, magnesia, sulphur and iron. 

The brain and nervous system is composed of water, 
albumen, fat, phosphoric acid, asmazone and a slight 
showing of salts. 

The liver is composed of water, fat and albumen, with 
phosphoric acid in conjunction with soda, lime, potash 
and iron. 

The lungs are formed of a substance like gelatine, albu- 
men and caesium, fibrine, fatty and organic acids, choles- 
terine, salts of soda, iron and water. 

Bile consists of water, fat, resin, sugar, fatty and 
organic acids, cholesterine and salts of patash, soda and 
iron. 

You see that it is necessary that the body should be 
provided with salts of potash, soda, lime, magnesia, sul- 
phur, iron and manganese, as well as sulphuric acid, 
hydrochloric acid, phosphoric acid and fluoric acid and 

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water; a good daily provision of fat and nitrogenous 
material; also albumen, fibrine, gelatine and chondrine. It 
can produce sugar rapidly and largely, and some fat from 
other substanses, but I will tabulate the materials necessary 
in such a manner that you will be better able to under- 
stand what to do for yourself in the selection from these 
elements, or foods. So great an array of substances, so 
generally spoken of, would prevent us from feeding our- 
selves, if the selection should depend solely upon our 
knowledge or judgement. We have some aid from our 
appetites, which are largely governed in their wants by 
the law of natural affinities, when a longing for some de- 
ficient element ensues, as water, for instance. Thirst 
asks for it. The other necessary elements ask in the same 
manner until the deficiency is repaired and the chemical 
compound known as the human body is complete, then 
the body is at ease from satisfaction. The muscular tis- 
sues of animals contain precisely the same elements that 
are required as flesh formers. Seeing, moreover, that all 
of the animal's body is made from vegetation and water, 
we are assured that vegetables have the same elements as 
fresh, showing that it is wholly unnecessary to eat meat — 
wholly unnecessary to cruelly murder any living thing for 
food. I quit eating meat seven years ago; have since 
lived on milk, cream, butter, the cereals, fruits and eggs. 
Am stronger, at 67; healthier; have more endurance than 
when 60 years of age. I now know the half decayed, 
acid loaded meats that fill the markets and stomachs of the 
people, originate a very large part of the ill health exist- 

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ing. Why, meat eight days old is virtually a carbon 
deoxide. Why should we eat offal? If a man would 
rather die at 60, and indulge his caprices, or satisfy a 
morbid, abnormal appetite to that limit, rather than 
reasonably supply his system as God directs, and live 20 
years longer, he can do so. He has the opportunity to 
take his mother's child in hand, at 18, with all the vir- 
tuous feelings she transmitted, and turn him into a barba- 
rian and beast, but it is not the path the laws of heaven 
made. How can a soul grow a virtue upon such a 
body? 

There is abundant evidence that it is unnatural to kill 
anything for food. Everything living has the natural 
right to life, liberty and happiness as much as ourselves. 
It is easy enough to fence off our part of the earth. 
There is a law that cares for over propagation, A hun- 
dred men cannot live on the productions forced from one 
acre of land, No man or beast has the right to produce 
more living things than he can care for. Death from 
starvation, or only the humanity of others can save the 
surplus. Here is the law: A fruit tree spurred to over- 
production by a rich soil, is naturally obliged to rest over 
one year. God provides in nature that compounds shall 
take only the definite proportion that belongs to them. 
The same law controls everything. Indeed the beast, 
nearer nature, stops when his appetite is satisfied. We 
do not. We breed and invent luxuries; then keep our- 
selves stuffed with them to indulge our abnormally edu- 
cated senses. Other indulgences the same, in violation of 

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the rules of the natural laws. 

There is positive evidence in the natural laws that 
every living thing, endowed with powers of activity, has 
a soul, and are endowed with reasoning powers, in that 
they seek self-preservation. We say that they are our 
enemies because they defend themselves. We have the 
same right of defense and no more. We have arrived at 
that development in knowledge when we can seek more 
safety from the penalties of the natural laws. Who shall 
say the lower world is not in a state of development in 
intelligence? Surely, necessity compels our own. The 
more knowledge we have, the larger the incentive for 
more. Why? I do not need to recapitulate our studies 
in natural principles. Either what I have argued is true, 
or that brutal law of the survival of the fittest, versus 
humanity and love, is. Which? Let your civilized heart 
and soul answer, for your commercial circumstances may 
not be able to judge without prejudice. The moral and 
human is now hand in hand and you will not be able to 
separate them, for the great world of humanity is growing 
better every minute, in spite of all this. 

To continue our discussion of proper nutritions for the 
body: Our appetites — which is the law of affinity at 
work — gives us a choice of the application of both, if we 
were unthinking; but it is as possible to find more satis- 
faction in the vegetable kingdom than in the angnal, when 
we seek what life requires, for we can live just as long 
and as satisfactorily on the vegetable, at least. We are 
now placed face to face with the requirements of the 

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body and the qualities of the foods to be used to supply 
them. The needs of the body are tolerably uniform, 
while the effect of the supply is temporary. This may 
be readily represented by showing the line of change in 
the degree of vital action on the body during 24 hours. 
The vital action during repose and abstinence from food 
during the night, is low. While under the influence of 
food and activity it is as high, or higher, in the propor- 
tion of vitality existing in the food. 

There can be no easier way to instruct you in the 
requirements of body food than a tabulation. What we 
are naturally composed of, elementally, is what we have 
to give the body to continue life and strength. As I 
have said before, the body is composed of oxygen, 2 1 ; 
hydrogen, 7; nitrogen, 16; carbon, 53; salts, 3; total, 
100. 



Rice, ultimately, when burned in the body 

Oats, 

Wheat, 

Barley, 

Beef, 

Mutton, 

Pork, 

Fish, 

Salmon, 

Potato, 

This table shows the life giving elements in the articles 
of food, besides oxygen and hydrogen, quoting the last 

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Life 


Nitrogen 


Energy 


he body 1 . 


39- 


" 2. 


40. 


1,72 


38. 


1.03 


38. 


" 2.09 


34-°3 


" 2. 


41.45 


13.05 


18.05 


18.01 


2.09 


" 16.01 


5.05 


•35 


1 1. 01 



column. Mutton stands at the head; oats next; while 
rice, wheat and barley are close up as a third. 

Albumen, an element that enters largely into the com- 
position of the egg, meats, and consequently first derived 
from the vegetable kingdom by birds and animals, is the 
basic nutrition and most all that is valuable in essential 
vegetation, is very close to the chemical composition of 
the body. 

Now, as aggregate builders of the whole organism, the 
following table will tell you which gives you the most for 
your money: 







Hydro- 


Nitro- 


Sul- 




Oxygen 


gen 


gen 


phur 


Carbon 


Dry Albumen, 


22.01 


7. 


5.07 


2. 


53-04 


Vegetable '* 


22.04 


7.08 


15.08 


1. 


54. 


The body, con 


21. 


7. 


16. 


3- 


53. 


Fats, alone, 


1 1. 


12. 


— . 


- 


77- 


Cartilage, Ox, 


25.67 


7.14 


17.32 


- 


49.81 


" Calf, 


25.06 


7-03 


17.02 


- 


49.09 


Butter, 


1 1. 


12. 


— . 


- 


77* 


Starch, 


10. 


10. 


— . 


- 


12. 


Sage and ) 
Arrow Root j 


5. 


10. 


— . 


- 


6. 


Sugar, 


1 1. 


22. 


— . 


- 


12, 


Water, 87 j 
p.c. of body j 


33-^ 


66.^ 


— . 


- 


— . 



In order that you may not be overloaded with statistics, 
I give you only the percentage of carbon, or life force, 
these foods produce from being chemically burnt in the 
body: 



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Rice 39. 

Wheat 3S. 

Beef. 34-°3 

Pork 18.05 

Potato 1 1. 01 



Oats • 40. 

Barley 38. 

Mutton 4 J -45 

Fish 2.04 

Sugar 12. 



It will be seen by these statements that dry and vege- 
table albumen, alone, contain almost the exact counter- 
part of the elements that compose a human body. 

The cartilage of the ox and calf stand next in line. 
These and milk, which alone contains all of the elements 
of the human body, could furnish us a living, if no other 
food but water should be taken. So, indeed, rice is 
alone, with water, almost the entire food of hundreds of 
millions of people. The same could come from the use 
of oats and wheat. Bat we are hunting for life force as 
well as nitrogen. Poverty in America is hunting most 
for a substitute for meat and other costly foods. It will 
astonish these people to know that the same bulk or 
weight of oats, wheat, rice and sugar, in sustaining their 
muscular system and vitality, beat the best beefsteak two 
and a half to one. 

Here is the report the best chemists in the world have 
made upon this very question: 

Beef- — Ten grains of raw, lean beef, when burnt in 
the body, produce heat enough to raise 3.66 pounds of 
water 1 ° Fah. in its temperature, which is equal to rais- 
ing 2.829 pounds one foot high. 

Oatmeal — Ten grains of oatmeal, when thoroughly 
burnt in the body, produce sufficient heat to raise 

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io.oi pounds of water I ° Fah., which is equal to lifting 
7.800 pounds one foot high. 

Wheat — Ten grains of wheat flour, when thoroughly- 
burnt in the body, produce sufficient heat to raise 9.87 
pounds of water i° Fah., which is equal to lifting 7.623 
pounds 1 foot high. 

Rue — Ten grains of ground rice, when thoroughly 
burnt in the body, produce heat enough to raise 9.8 
pounds of water i° Fah., which is equal to lifting 7.454 
pounds one foot high. 



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FOR THE POOR MAN TO 
CONSIDER. 



Oats have been proved to contain the richest and most 
strengthening properties, except mutton, which costs so 
much you cannot have it. Therefore oatmeal, is the next 
choice. Its test reveals that it is two and a half times 
stronger in heat, nitrogen and animal life force, than beef, 
which is generally beyond the reach of the poor. 

The table shows that rice, wheat and barley stand 
close beside it, and, pound for pound, they cost about 
one-tenth as much and they are pure foods, not subject to 
disease like cattle, nor the decay of the meat shop. 

Peas and beans, when ripe, contain more fundamental 
nutrition than oats, rice, wheat or bailey. There is 
every reason why everybody should taboo meats. The 
meat of poultry and the hog, if allowed to stray, comes 
from the filthiest of food. Such birds and hogs root and 
dig in the earth for the largest part of their living. If fed 
on the cereals alone, which would make them cost too 
much, it would be different. Not knowing what the 
meat is made of, I taboo all of it. That we might not 
be obliged to eat filth, or cruelly kill, God has placed on 
the earth, for our benefit, the cow who feeds upon the 
cleanest, richest, sweetest grass and hay she can' find, and 
often the cereals. Her milk gives us all the elements of 

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our bodies, perhaps diluted too largely with water, ;s 
her milk is made directly from grass, and is only the grass 
digested; if she is diseased it cannot vitiate her milk, if her 
digestion is normal. Then the hen, with her rich eggs. 
The albumen, with the water dried out, is the richest 
food ever made, containing all of the elements of the body 
in almost definite proportion. If the egg costs too much, 
the dry, ripe pea comes next, containing more albumen 
than any other vegetable; eight and a half times cheaper 
than meat, causing no stimulating action for reaction, as 
tender meat does. 

These tables contain the whole philosophy of nutrition 
in a nutshell. Study them carefully and adapt them to 
your circumstances and the building of your life forces, 
healthily. You are what you are made of. Write that 
in your hat so that you may read it every time you don 
your hat for dinner. Think of it all the way home — "1 
am what I am made of." 

Can any person say it is not easy to account for the 
ocean of ill health abroad? Who shall say that the life 
forces are not made from what we eat? It is self-evident 
that they are. If foul air can vitiate, why not impure 
food? 

These tables tell us of that which comes from the hand 
of God without impurity. How that same, in the hands 
of the cooker of luxuries, is made unfit to eat, is a matter 
for memory. 

Again, I say, our bodies are what we make them from: 
the fruit, vegetable, bird and animal. Catering to the 

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taste for luxuries, we have brought longevity from the 
hundreds of years, in the old time, to only 33 years. 
Massachusetts has lately raised it to 38. If we have found 
the retrograde and the means to create and transmit the 
forces of animal life from pure food elements and reinforce 
the nerve centres, who shall say that we may not reach 
1 20 years during the 20th century? You see that our 
presumption has foundation. It is not an idiotic assump- 
tion, or the vagary of an unsound mind. I had this re- 
sult in view when I began what was believed to be a 
hopeless task, 16 years ago. We have harnessed and 
subdued to service, sea, air and lightning — why not the 
food elements? The scientific man who has never dis- 
covered anything will still cry fraud and ridiculous, as in 
the past, bat the earth will still measure the days and 
nights, and the seasons that give seedtime and harvest 
between the poles, over all the useful part of the earth. 
The telegraph, telephone, steam, electricity and harnessed 
river have all passed by him, and he has said to all, this is 
the last; but there will still arise many an opportunity for 
the carpers' cackling. He will do no harm, for he is not 
large enough to trig the wheels of progress. We are yet 
going to know all of the life in the beyond. How this 
life builds or retracts from its beauty and comforts. 



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RECAPITULATION AND ORIGIN 
OF ABNORMAL PHYSIOLOGY— 
THE LAW OF THE SIMILARS. 



To what conclusions must we arrive after our examina- 
tion of the natural laws? 

First — Life force is a chemical result from heat and the 
food we eat, during the digestive process. 

Second — Food is manufactured, in the vegetable king- 
dom, from oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, which 
compose all of the earth and its products. 

Third — The nervous system is the centre for the 
accumulation of this life force and it uses the strength it 
gives it, mostly, to execute the functions of the organs of 
the body. 

Fourth — That normal strength and function in the 
human organism means normal health for all of the 
organism . 

Fifth — That ill health, mainly, comes from this cause: 
Half the food we eat is manufactured into blood, and 
there is a corresponding amount of waste, which is termed 
a carbon deoxide. If the nervous system has been weak- 
ened from some cause and is not able to expel this waste, 
semi-poisonous acids form in it, chemically, and produce 
rheumatism, neuralgia, dyspepsia, nerve inflammations, 
liver and pancreatic disturbances, sick headache and all 

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complaints or exhaustions we have reason to complain of. 
These can be obviated by reinforcing the nervous system 
to normal strength, when it is able to expel the cause of 
its distress. 

Sixth — That a reinforcing strength can be manufac- 
tured from oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, and 
transmitted to it as its natural force, making it able to pro- 
duce normal strength and health in functional diseases. 

Seventh — That it is self- evidently an observable fact, 
that the generation of life force from these gases, in the 
shape of food, in the stomach, during the digestive pro- 
cess, is without reasonable question. It is also a fact that 
the nervous system absorbs this force through the law of 
natural affinities. That all of it is but the operation of 
well known chemical laws that operate without the co- 
operation of intelligence while this transformation of food 
into food force and blood transpires. 

Eighth — That a human body is now positively known 
to be a chemical compound and is made of material ele- 
ments that are without intelligence. That the body and 
its intelligence are two distinct individual creations. The 
one is created and continued in life by the food it eats. 
The soul of the child, as received from the mother, after 
birth, grows in the great sea of educated intelligence, as its 
body does from the great ocean of the gases. The mother 
and father build the body and soul from origin to birth, 
when outside means cares for its existence, both running 
the gauntlet of the natural laws that insists upon the sur- 
vival of fitness, and the other of a moral existence and its 

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requirements. It is now plain that the mother and father 
originate and give instinctive intelligence to their babe as 
plainly as the babe, until birth, receives its body growth 
from the food of the mother, under the law of natural 
affinities. 

Ninth — Disease is a positive mass of molecules, foreign 
in character to the body compound that produces animal 
life force. To be able to stay in the nervous system and 
gradually change the functions, it is self-evident that its 
force must be too weak to compel the forces of life to 
expel it by reaction. We have observed that its char- 
acter is so minute and lacking in power that, in contagious 
miasmatic impressions or disturbances, it requires from 
nine to fourteen days to establish a disturbance large 
enough to attract your attention. It has then, by that 
time, apparenrly held back enough carbon deoxides to set 
the nerve centres into a struggle to expel it. Now it is 
not the deoxides, so irritative, that composes the disease; 
they are only a result. The miasmatic attack was so 
weak it could not affect the nervous system in the least, 
when it began. The change of function that made the 
nervous system poison itself with its own waste was at 
first too feeble to win attention, but gradually grew. 

Now the accumulating deoxides are capable of produc- 
ing irritation, sensible and objective symptoms, and we 
are called upon by the natural law to match it with like 
similar symptoms a drug can produce. What are these 
two diseases? One is a drug disease and the other is a 
miasmatic disease. They are alike in substance in the 

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phenomena of symptoms they create and, as both seem 
to be able to change or disturb the functions of the organs 
of the body and cause distress, in the same manner, con- 
sequently their molecules are alike, and they are both 
enemies to the human body compound. Now these two 
diseases, being alike, they are alike compounds, or made 
from like molecules existing in two places, the body and 
medicine, but they wont combine with the forces of 
animal life, and are shown to be antagonistic. What shall 
we do? The two diseases are alike and will unite. The 
laws of natural affinity will make them combine on con- 
tact. Affinity compels a larger likeness to attract a smaller. 
Remember that the life force of the system is trying to 
throw off the disease miasm that is buried in the vital cen- 
tres, and the reaction causes fevers, etc. Now the efforts 
of the forces of life would throw it off in time if we left it 
to itself. With the knowledge that a mass of molecules 
of any kind will attract a smaller mass of the same kind, 
we place the similar drug molecules upon the mucus and 
serous membranes in excess of the miasmatic similarity, 
and it immediately attracts the miasmatic lesser power ot 
molcules or likeness from the nerve centres, while both 
are expelled from the surface by the nervous reactions al- 
ready at work, and the nerves later have nothing further 
to do than expel the deposits or deoxides the disease 
molcules have caused to be retained. This is a period of 
convalescence. The similar medicine given had not been 
absorbed more than enough to attract their smaller likeness, 
because of the reactions existing. Now, in the applica- 

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tion of a similarity to the disease, how shall we determine 
the force to use? For the purpose of drawing the miasm 
from the nerve centers we must use a likeness of the phe- 
nomena existing whose attraction is powerful enough to 
compel the molecules of disease to attract the former from 
their security in the nerve centers. We must have a 
likeness. A likeness in force produces the same condition 
of pulse and temperature as disease miasm does. Now 
the forces of animal life are assisting our curative similarity. 
I say again, there is no danger of our drug disease mole- 
cules as curative being absorbed, because the disease miasm 
has already created a violent reactive condition in the 
nervous systeai. With our drug molecules in larger 
quantity to attract the molecules of the disease, the case is 
soon in convalescence. This is the foundation of the law of 
the similars. To impress your memory, I have repeated 
the essential points. I repeat again that a drug has never 
yet been potentized in alcohol until it is as weak as the 
disease miasms that float as an imperceptible vapor in the 
air. I have tried the 6000 th potency of sulphur, calcaria 
carb. and phosphorus, and found one dose curative after 
four weeks action on diseases that never mend from reso- 
lution or recuperative means. These very high potencies 
stay too long and act too slow; 200 is the right thing. 
Undoubtedly this will bring a smile to the blister, bleed, 
calomel and jalap brigade, who refuse to discover any- 
thing that interferes' with old theories. But they will 
know more soon; for someone will tell them, sometime, 
something which will compel them to think how much 

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they have needlessly added to the population of the insane 
asylums and cemeteries. These men will cry fraud and 
idiocy as soon as they hear of this. I am ready to show 
them hundreds of cases they have thundered at for years, 
t hat this infinitesimal treatment has reached after they 
were thought to be beyond help. We have hundreds of 
these cases on exhibition in Boston and adjoining cities. 
This is no bluster, but newly developed science the world 
has not known of before. We have found authority for 
the law of the similars in the natural laws. We can now 
create and transmit to the nerves animal life force, until 
it has normal strength. We can expel the cause of irrita- 
tions and inflammations while the patient does not know 
he is being treated. We have found, at last, a natural 
system that advises us of the size of the dose of medicine 
in treating abnormal physiology and the time it should 
cure, and the time its similarity of force and kind is 
applied to the disease and becomes curative on that law. 

Tenth — We now know that drugs and diseases are alike 
in principle in their power to disturb a healthy organism. 
That in the diversity of species and kinds of combinatiou 
that can disturb, we discover the results of the law of 
natural affinity. That, in their diversity of character, one 
cannot act upon the other in scientific authority except 
upon the rules of the law of the similars. 

Eleventh — We have now learned that a chemical com- 
bination that has had its origin within the natural laws is 
often antagonistic to another. Its action upon others, un- 
like it, will produce what is called abnormal conditions, or 

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a disturbance we call disease, if it is applied to our own 
organism. Names of diseases are, therefore, perhaps un- 
necessary. 

If such a disturbance, or disease, is of a malignant char- 
acter and the physician has but little time for his remedy 
to work before his patient might die, he must select a 
violent, quick acting drug similarity, potentized to a very 
weak force, that produces a likeness to the disease in the 
drug, proving, during the first hours of its drug disease on 
a healthy organism. That you may understand the re- 
quirements of the "law of the similars," or, more scien- 
tifically speaking, the chemical law of affinity, more com- 
pletely, let me describe the law of pathogenesis in drug 
diseases. Drug diseases are of three kinds in their activ- 
ity or power and adaptation: 

First — Those drugs, or medicines, so called, which act 
but a few hours and are then thrown off. Such are suited 
to acute diseases, like colds, threatened fevers, effects of 
colds, pneumonia, acute bowel complaints, etc. 

Second — There are others that produce long lasting 
symptoms, suited to chronic diseases or established dis- 
turbances; too light to excite reaction and be thrown off. 

Third- — There are others that overpower the nervous 
system at once, and are suited to malignant cases where 
the deoxide waste of the body is so completely retained 
and the irritation and consequent fever is so high, decom- 
position of the waste and often blood poisoning is pro- 
duced. There are proper drug similars, when weakened 
below danger, to apply to malignant diphtheria, typhoid 

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and scarlet fevers. Remember that what we see is not 
the disease but the result. A drug has never been weak- 
ened by potentization to the lightness of a disease miasm; 
consequently our highest potencies, or weakest drug prep- 
arations, are vastly heavier than the first cause of disease. 

Keep in mind, that I have said that medicine, in its 
action on the organism, is a disease. Every foreign com- 
pound, or combination with a deoxide, is a disturbing 
agent, when brought in contact with a healthy body in- 
terior — that these foreign combinations are as many as we 
observe in the earth's individualities — giving distinct char- 
acter and individual species to the myriads that are forced 
upon our observation in the great field of disease; calling 
for as large a field in drug symptomatic similarities, to 
meet them. Drugs and diseases being alike, in principle, 
they should be controlled by like rules in attack and de- 
velopment of results, or curative action. We deal with 
such minute forces in the disease miasms; crude drugs 
are never admissable. 

In applying the rule, symptoms, or phenomena, have 
their derivation from molecules natural to them. Each 
class of molecules, whether in drug or miasm, attract each 
other. A larger mass of molecules of the same character 
will attract and absorb their like, in a smaller quantity, 
when they come within the radius of attraction. No 
compound attracts another unlike it. Forced into our 
compound, they make a disturbance. 

As I said before, chronic diseases are from some dis- 
turbing elements too light to excite reactions, yet enough 

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to disturb to discomfort, or cause deposit, or effusion of 
the deoxides around the nerves, causing irritation or pain, 
as a result; or it may be the older deposits left over from 
some imperfectly cured acute disease. To match this 
with a similar we must be governed by the phenomena 
and sensible symptoms, which the patient will describe, 
and we must observe the law, in the force of the disease, 
while selecting a similar drug, as much as we do its path- 
ological development in time. In chronic diseases you 
must remember that the disease, or change, has had time 
to establish itself and there is really an established disturb- 
ance the forces of life cannot expel because of its infinites- 
imal, miasmatic or minute deoxide origin. The forces 
of life can only fight the results. We repeat our similar, 
or we do not, in proportion as it is similar, and cure as 
much, accordingly. 

Under the law of natural defense, whieh exists with 
the life forces, we have an intensely active curative help, 
in that we are want to observe that this is able to throw off 
nine-tenths of the diseases or disturbances when left to its 
own defense. We give medicine to help or ward off 
possible danger. To scientifically assist it, the law of 
the similars is the arbitrary rule. Now, what is the law 
of the similars, you ask? I have used it 35 years, and I 
did not know until a few years ago. I had heard that 
like cures like, and similars would cure, but I, like others, 
matched symptoms as best we could; but we did not 
know how much to give or how often to repeat the medi- 
cine — in fact every man was a system to himself because 

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the simple statement of * 'similar similibus curantur" did 
not establish or describe a system for medical application. 
Studying the law of natural affinities, it was thrust in my 
face. Here it is: 

Symptoms just alike, existing both in a disease and a 
similar drug proving, are produced by the same kind of 
molecules. Then the drug similar and diseased nerve 
centres are possessed alike. The infinitesimal amount in 
the nerve centres, infinitely lighter than our weakest 
potencies, causing what we call the disease — mumps, 
measles, diphtheria or cholera — was so small it required 
nine to fourteen days for it to get up a sensible symptom. 
How small was this cause? We know the size of the 
result, because we can see it. Our highest potencies 
were an imponderabilia, in comparison, because their 
particles would not float in the air like the disease miasm. 
How can we make our larger similar absorb the like 
smaller disease miasm under the law of natural affinities, 
and not disturb in a like manner as the miasm? Under 
this law, two masses of molecules that are alike will attract 
each other. The larger will draw the smaller to itself. 
We physicians are called when this infinitesimal miasm 
has accumulated enough waste or deoxide body poison, 
which we call disease, to set the life forces into violent 
reactions to expel it in self-defense. Now we approach 
the miasm with a larger amount of like drug molecules to 
absorb the smaller disease cause. We pour it into the 
patient in water. The reactions of the nervous system at 
work prevents our larger similarity from going to the nerve 

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centres and staying, but, under the law of affinities, it has 
absorbed the smaller from the nerve centres along the 
powerful action of the nerve filaments, drawing or acting 
from the periphery. The law of natural affinities has 
relieved the nerve centres with a larger similarity of mole- 
cules from outside, and it remains for the nervous system, 
impelled by the life forces, to expel the debris through 
natural channels. This is the law of the similars, whose 
phenomena Hahnemann saw in the peruvian bark and its 
alkaloid drug disease. 

This is the line of assisting defense from abnormal phys- 
iology, or illness. I have tested this to the utmost and in 
practice can show the most skeptical physician, from self- 
evident results, that there can be no doubt of the authority 
of this law. The use of antitoxine as a prophylactic is a 
blundering tumble in that direction, while they don't 
know why. The chemical law of the affinities tells us 
why. 

The causes of abnormal physiology are as numerous 
as the multitudinous individualities existing in species. We 
are a chemical compound. The weeds, trees, poisonous 
plants and minerals are. Not being like our bodies, they 
are foreign in nature and will disturb our compound if 
mixed with it and some of them would kill it. If some of 
these foreign compounds die and decay they float a charac- 
teristic miasm in the air. Because of its infinitesimal char- 
acter, if breathed by us, it is dangerous in proportion as it 
is poison, and light enough to produce no reactionary de- 
fense by our life forces. Because of this multitude of dis- 

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turbers, I have discussed the means of defence so elabor- 
ately. 

These disturbances even extend to the mixing with our 
compound of too much of the proper thing. We can 
force our stomach to take too much of the proper thing, 
but you can't make the system take it and assimilate it. 
An overload causes a reaction as surely as the system ex- 
pels too heavy a dose of poison from the stomach. When 
you overload the forces of animal life with that proper 
thing, the reaction expels it and a part of the good force 
you had before, with it. Did you ever notice the tired, 
lifeless, sleepy feeling that succeeds an overloaded stomach? 
You are not as well off as you was before you took it. If 
you don't vomit that meal you lose the force it creates for 
you. Often you cannot digest it all because you do 
not have gastric juice enough. Then the undigested 
portion sours and vitiates what you have digested. You 
can now see how ignorance or want of thought impairs 
the forces of animal life with a deoxide poisoning. 

Almost anything unnatural to the system, if brought in 
contact with its functions, causes illness. The creation 
and care of your life forces is paramount to everything. 
The father arid mother owe it to the children that are 
constructed in their likeness and endowed with their in- 
stincts and have the right to have a pure life force trans- 
mitted to begin life with. The obligation extends to 
them, as well. Every reaction and repulsion of unnatural 
elements, or intemperate use of proper things, by the ner- 
vous system, by the natural laws, through the life forces, 

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is defending you against yourselves. You see how im- 
portant it is that I advise you of these practical effects. 
Also, how infinitesimal the assisting defending forces must 
be to get proper results. Life is not an imponderabilia of 
force. It is an aggregation of the most minute forces the 
human mind can conceive. The results from these is 
often of the most disastrous character. There is a line of 
demarkation in attaining equilibrium, I shall argue farther 
along. 

In continuing the explanation of the system of natural 
defense against abnormal intrusions upon the normal con- 
ditions of our body compound, I want to call your atten- 
tion to the mode in which drugs are proved, or made to 
create disease and disturbance in the healthy organisms of 
pro vers, though most of our provings come from ac- 
cidental poisonings or would be suicides. Many prov- 
ings have been made from potencies too light to be felt at 
once. Chemical observations have been recorded. 

The authority for potentization of these drugs or med- 
icines, used for the defense of the system, are based upon 
this: John Brown's son gets a dose of the mumps. He 
was only exposed for a moment. If he had been blind- 
folded he would never have suspected that he had taken 
the mumps. How heavy was the dose taken? The 
mump miasm was so weak it was not susceptible to the 
senses. It was so highly potentized that it would float in 
the air. Why should it take more to cure a man than it 
does to make him sick? It should not take as much. 
Why? Indeed, most all diseases will get well themselves 

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if let alone, as I have said before, which proves that there 
is a powerful recuperative force in the nerves that resists 
the intrusion of foreign elements. When we intrude to 
disturb we meet that resistance. When we apply a cura- 
tive, we have its help. We have never weakened a 
remedy by dividing its particles by succussion in alcohol 
until its particles would float in the air. These facts 
throw the drug over and invite the high potency. This 
is natural law, not an opinion. Under the circumstances 
the physician has no discretion. The law commands 
him. He must know how to follow its direction. Ex- 
perience and observation proves that the drug or medicine 
is always stronger than the disease miasm. 

Let me give you an example: After absorbing the 
mump miasm, it is from nine to fourteen days before that 
little dose has changed the function of the parotid glands 
enough to make a sensible symptom. Now the orifice, 
or opening of the waste glands, nearly close and it is dis- 
tended and aches from the retention of its own secretions. 
After a time the irritated and contracted nerves that con- 
trol the function of the glands become exhausted, relax, 
the gland empties itself, the pain is over, the patient is 
convalescent. 

Mercurius solubilis will produce the same conditions as 
the mumps. Then we must give it, but how? We 
must apply the similar phenomena of one to the similar 
phenomena of the other. We must ascertain the force to 
apply and how often to repeat the dose. There was one 
dose of the mumps contagion. Why should there be 

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more of the curative? We do not need as much of the 
drug as it required to produce the likeness on the patient. 
Why? We have the help of the life or recuperative forces. 
We produced the similarity on a healthy organism in spite 
of their resistance. It takes mercurius solubilis four days 
to produce the likeness. The difference, with the help 
of the vital force, is 170 potency. We give one dose in 
a cup of water, well mixed. It will cure as fast as it can 
produce a likeness; it would prevent, or be prophylactic. 
Men who treat on general principles deny this, and say 
there is no legal principle anyone can use as authority for 
similar curative applications. That contagious diseases 
must have a fall run. That medicine can do nothing to 
prevent or modify its force; and it is generally the case in 
mumps and whooping cough, that nothing is done; but a 
wait is advised until it will run through. Under the 
action of a similar medicine, or drug, such cases can be 
almost obliterated, while in first inception. How? The 
painful swelling of the glands has a counterpart in the 
action of mercurius solubilis. Well, how much? You 
will remember how little it required to produce this case 
of mumps. That it does not require as much to cure a 
man in such a case as it does to make him sick; but we 
must exceed the miasmatic force; the law of affinities so 
dictates. That the recuperative, or life force, of the sys- 
tem is then engaged in a hard struggle to throw off the 
intrusion; therefore, how much shall the curative help 
force be? The mump miasm had increased the pulse 22 
beats and increased the temperature one-half a degree. 

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How much mercurius solubilis will do the same in spite of 
the resistance of the forces of life? 

What is the difference in the drug force, helped by the 
life force, and the disturbing force? The one hundred 
and seventieth potency. Now, how do I know that? 
By the effect form the one dose of mercurius solubilis 
given and not repeated, and then watching the time of its 
action. It was found it would hold up a pulse tempera- 
ture and irritation equal to what it could produce from 
the overpowering dose of a drug proving within the 
same time it could produce the drug symptoms. The 
heavier could not enter the nerve centres. It attacked 
the glands, outside, and assisted the reacting life. It 
would almost obliterate a similar force of mump miasm 
within five days. Why? It presented a chemical mole- 
cular similarity in that time, and larger, which absorbed 
the similar, w 7 eaker mump miasm; under the law of nat- 
ural affinity, received and assisted the reaction it produced 
and met an expulsion by the highly irritated, sensitive 
nervous system, that was struggling for a defense of the 
glands at that time, by expelling the miasm on natural 
principles, as per chemical law of the affinites. 

The individuality of species is originated naturally. 
Disturbance is a weaker unlikeness. Elements of like 
character combine in like amount and stay there, unless 
disturbed, as I have stated. A similar curative is always 
a larger similarity, that absorbs its smaller disease miasms 
while receiving a simultaneous nervous expulsion from the 
reacting life forces. 

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Who, then, shall determine the minute character of 
disease miasms? A malignant, filthy case of small pox is 
from a minute miasm, that, after many days, is able to 
gradually close the skin and glands, compelling the body 
to poison itself with its own impurities, or carbon deox- 
ides. The skin glands, full of waste matter, irritated, 
consequently inflame, suppurate and discharge like a boil. 
Diseases — typhoid fevers, diphtheria, etc., are simple and 
malignant in proportion to the amount of the retention of 
these poisonous excretions. The originating cause was as 
small as we have shown you. The power of malaria is 
reckoned upon the same principle. Small dissases come 
from correspondingly small disturbers, consequently disease 
is only a chemical disturbance. 

If a certain power of disease may cause a malignant 
condition within seven days, or even four or less, you 
must remember that the disease is generally from seven to 
fourteen days ahead of the physician, who is called at the 
first symptom. 

The law of magnetic attraction and repulsion was born 
in the same natural pool, else individualities could not 
exist. The law of affinity is a co-ordinate or co-opera- 
tive law with the other, but stronger. 

As I said before, we can only meet one resulting 
phenomena with another similar phenomena, because they, 
alike, come from infinitesimal forces, molecular, we can- 
not measure, see or feel, until after a long period of incu- 
bation, or primary activity below the senses. We can 
only meet phenomena with phenomena. We have learned 

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to observe that quite severe illness, or disturbances in the 
functions of the body, will generally pass off without med- 
icine. We use the latter to save time and possible danger. 
What does this prove? That there is a powerful recuper- 
ative force in our organism, as I often repeat to impress 
your memory, that resists the encroachments of disturbing 
miasms or other impressions on the nervous system. This 
is the animal life of the system imbued with the actional 
power of self-defense. From what source does this de- 
fensive power come? I have shown you. You have 
observed that the natural elements: oxygen, hydrogen, 
nitrogen and carbon, first formed the compound we call 
our organism and life. "That any given chemical com- 
pound always contains the same elements combined in the 
same proportions." They will take on no other, nor 
any alteration, unless they are attacked by minute miasms 
or overpowered by a more positive force. Jt is the life 
law of repulsion at work, defending the life of the nerves 
and organism. In this law of affinity and repulsion, in 
the unison of a natural compound, or its disturbance by a 
superior force, causing reaction or expulsion, is the best 
explanation of the purpose of the life force that emanates 
from our chemical compound that we have described. 
Therefore, we say again, that every natural compound of 
natural elements that has come from the great gas masses 
of the universe and are self-compensatory from chemical 
activity and natural combination within themselves, are 
natural or normal, healthy compounds under the protec- 
tion of their life force, which is as individual in character 

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as our own body compound itself. Therefore, any alter- 
ation of this compound, or disturbance in its functions, by 
or from any abnormal cause, must come from a positive 
cause in abnormal superior strength or insidious weakness 
too small to excite repulsion. If the nervous life is able 
to resist it, it dies and goes back to the original elements 
of substance and force from whence it emanated. 

You have been told that different classes of bacteria give 
character to diseases. Generally, they do; but only a weak- 
ened nervous system, that allows carbon deoxides to be 
retained in the body until a partial decomposition, can origi- 
nate a basis for bacteria of any kind to propagate to a 
dangerous accumulation. It is their relation to this state 
that makes a knowledge of these creatures imperative to 
physicians. So long as the tissue of a higher animal like 
man is healthy and well nourished, bacteria cannot thrive. 
Why? A normal strength of nerve keeps the carbon de- 
oxide material passing off, on which they propagate. In 
proportion as it is retained and deoxidized, or becomes 
decomposed, they thrive and propagate to the danger 
point. Active normal life force and living pure tissues 
are, as you might say, antiseptic to them. They will 
starve bacteria by destroying or preventing their means of 
living, and it is only owing to this bactericide power of life 
and texture that we can breathe into our lungs the atmos- 
pheric air and swallow billions of these creatures. But 
for this life power that engenders purity and rapid change, 
every wound would become putrid and blood poisoning 
would ensue. When the vitality is lowered from any 

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cause, and the life force is correspondingly impaired, and 
the vital activity falls to a partially inactive stage, the vic- 
tory of the bacteria is signalled by rapid and fatal changes. 
Morbid fluids allowed to accumulate in the textures of the 
body, facilitate the growth of unhealthy bacteria and give 
rise to various grades of affections, especially in wounds 
or ulcerations. But if all accumulations are avoided, the 
bacteria that come in contact with the living tissues can 
only be a means of irritation and fever and not poisoning. 
They cannot propogate in a normal life force as in lifeless, 
deoxidized fluids. As a rule, the injurious effect of bacteria 
is in inverse proportion to the vital power of the organ 
which they invade. 

Simply stated: We use the term protoplasm to mean 
the material of which the active parts of the simplest forms 
of living beings are composed. It is now known that 
bacteria originate from the decomposition of these, which 
are the deoxidized material of the body. This one thing 
is sure because it can be observed under the powerful 
microscopes: the decomposition of waste material pro- 
duces disease bacteria. The characteristics of disease, 
especially epidemics, originate from malarial compounding 
with the alterations in function in the system that have 
changed the composition of the body to its injury. One 
year we have measles epidemic, another small pox, scarlet 
fever, cholera, typhoid fever, etc. The law of individu- 
ality enters into the diseases as much as all the other char- 
acteristics of the earth species. One is of normal condi- 
tions; the other abnormal. 

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So a drop of water, allowed to stagnate, developes the 
fact that everything is full of the elements that make life 
and the death of; or decomposition of one thing gives 
birth to a host of new animals or varieties. It is known 
that all the different varieties of disease originate in this 
way. Names are nothing now. The physician will 
treat conditions or phenomena with a similarity in the 
future. If not, he will find himself side-tracked. Pro- 
gress waits on the caprices and egotism of men and sys- 
tems no longer. It will be a study of the originating 
infinitesimal forces in the future, and not their results, 
which has led the medical world in the past. These 
matters declared are self-evident, not a creature of the 
imagination and the guess work of the doctor. The law 
of cure henceforth allows him no more discretion than the 
laws of chemistry do in antidoting a poisonous dose of 
arsenic. 



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THE LAW OF NATURAL 
AFFINITIES. 



The matter is so important, I deem it of the utmost 
importance to put these laws into practical effect and dis- 
cuss the law of natural affinities alone, and its use in the 
defense of life and the organism it uses. 

There is no doubt existing, now, that this law origi- 
nates the vast mass of individual things existing, maintains 
such individualities and protects them. One apple may 
be grafted to another of different character, yet it will 
maintain its original character. The tree may raise 
apples of a bitter flavor or the rankest sour. If the graft 
is sweet, when grown to the sour tree, it will draw its 
juices from the same stump and atmosphere and maintain 
its original sweet taste, because it will only absorb from 
nature molecules like its own. 

Deep down in the infinitesima of the imperceptible 
forces in vegetative life there exists a saccharine molecule 
flavor and characteristic in form and color that can only 
mix and originate with its affinities within the graft and 
absorb its own characteristic molecules from the great mass 
of elements aiound it. It is a question with the chemist 
who examines and analizes these different characteristics, 
as to species, or individualities agreeing in force or sub- 
stance, which we give a common name. 

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Species, in science, is defined "permanent groups of 
existing things, associated according to attributes or prop- 
erties," or, I might say, in a distinct uniformity of forces. 
Objects which possess the same chemical structure, are 
the same in physical characteristics, or a component part 
in a chemical compound. For instance, speaking of im- 
material forces, I do not believe such a thing exists as an 
immaterial force. The newly studied laws prove that 
both life force and electrical force are molecular in com- 
position. Species is rather a characteristic from the great 
granary of the universe, bred in the law of affinities. 

The grand phenomena of life springs from something. 
We have been content to rest upon the evidence of its 
existence and inquire no farther. Materials seem to be 
endowed with forces that may only show themselves 
when brought in contact with a definite proportion of 
other forces that can combine w 7 ith them under the chem- 
ical law to produce a new character in activity or 
phenomena. I have said that one natural compound 
may be able to disturb another not like it. 

Hitherto, we have dealt only with the combination of 
substances. I propose to plunge into the great forces of 
the universe and learn of the origin of life force there; 
for deep down, beyond the reach of our eyes or the touch 
of the alchemist, there are the same unisons and decompo- 
sitions of the forces that are imperceptible to us. That 
there is only phenomenal results to see in the senseless 
growth of an organism or vegetable. There is an im- 
perceptible life we may not feel; so minute it is days and 

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weeks from contact of an imperceptible disturbing force 
before we may see its results. Who can trace the miasm 
of the epidemic, or contagion? Lighter than the gases, 
smaller than the instinct of the most acute senses, floating 
imperceptibly in space, so light it can win no repulsion 
from the most sensitive nervous system, winning no sensi- 
ble symptom from it until in its infinitesimal quantity, 
after many days of insidious, minute influence, it succeeds 
in disturbing the equilibrium of the functions, compelling 
them to be self-distressed — sick. How small are the 
particles, atoms or molecules of the gasses that float — the 
forces that assume the form of spiritual or psychic 
phenomena? The more we hunt the phenomena, the 
more we are astonished and compelled to conclude that 
force is an infinitesimal substance, having only molecular 
individual chemical characteristics, viz. : If the coarser, 
observable materials create forces of a chemical character, 
how shall we deny that the apparently infinitesimal forces 
act upon the same principle when they originate corre- 
sponding phenomena? It is known, now, that there is 
no end to the division and sub- division of particles of 
matter, by succussion in alcohol. For instance, put one 
drop of a medical tincture, whose particles are beyond the 
power of the eye, into ioo drops of pure alcohol; beat 
it together by ioo succussions. In using it as a medicine 
you will find it more powerful than the tincture it was 
made from, for two reasons: it does not, by irritation, 
provoke the nervous system so much to repulsion, unless 
it is some powerful or corrosive poison; secondly, if 

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potentized enough, it enters the minute circulation of the 
nervous system, meeting with less repulsion, because of 
its ability to stay and effect the nerves so slightly and 
slowly. Now let us recapitulate principles. 

Then take another drop from the last preparation and 
treat it the same in alcohol as you did the other. You 
have divided and sub-divided the particles each time. In 
your first, you had in each drop of alcohol one one-hun- 
dredth of a drop of medicine. In the last you have one 
ten-thousandth in each drop. Weakened by the drop, 
two hundred times, in the same manner, each time by 
succussion, be sure that you divide the drop all the volume 
of alcohol will allow. In application as a medicine, I 
find the most remarkable results you can conceive. The 
particles of medicine are now far from being as light as 
the miasmatic disease forces that float imperceptibly in the 
air. The law says they should be slightly larger to be 
able to attract the miasm, as before described. If one 
can disease the system, why, if given as the law of the 
chemical forces demand, is it improbable that some medi- 
cal disease force cannot match it? Perhaps you smile 
when I say that medicine is a disease force. I have shown 
you already that so called medicine is as much, and, under 
the same principle, as much of a disturber as disease forces 
or miasms are. They are alike in principle. 

Now I am going to show you again that the chemical 
forces have self-evidently established the law of the sim- 
ilars. I wish doubly to impress this on your memory. 
Disease miasm is a positive, and the medical antidote or 

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likeness is the attractive agent, or is a negative, in the 
world of disease and curative forces. We must pit like 
phenomena against like phenomena, for these forces are 
chemically alike and may not be seen, weighed or have 
even anything but a characteristic combination of symp- 
toms or phenomena to show what it means, or to exhibit 
its character. We have passed from what we have 
hitherto known as the material world into the world of 
the old so called material forces. I have said all forces 
are in molecular substance, else how does the power 
travel? Electricity leaves the galvanic battery tank and 
travels the road made for it, only as an expansion of the 
chemical materials in the compound. Every force exist- 
ing, except the magnetic, was born in the same manner. 
Why do we know this? Because there is no other prin- 
ciple of origin and decomposition existing but descriptive 
and apparent phenomena. 

In order to make a drug useful we must tabulate its 
pathogensis, or proving. What is a proving? It is the 
characteristic symptoms it can produce on a healthy per- 
son to see what kind of a drug disease it will make when 
taken in sufficient quantity to seriously disturb the life 
forces and organism, without being thrown off, or to see 
what it will do in primary action before it is thrown off, 
or to see what it will do when taken in sufficient quantity 
to overpower the forces of life. To illustrate, we will 
tabulate an accidental poisoning: A hostler took 15 drops 
of tincture of belladonna to cure a strained arm. He 
took too much, and after 10 minutes seemed to vomit the 

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most of it. At least enough had remained to leave the 
drug disturbance it could make without killing the man; 
twenty-five drops would have overpowered and killed 
him. Here is the time of the development of the symp- 
toms: 10 minutes, vomited; l hour and 48 minutes, he 
had an excessive dryness of the internal membranes with 
great heat; congestion of the brain and hot, throbbing 
headache. Inflammation of the internal membranes had 
set in; there was a sense of constriction in the throat, 
spasms of the throat when he attempted to drink water, 
hot, throbbing headache, the eyes were red and congested. 
There were oft recurring flushes; pulse, 92; temperature, 

98 3-4°. 

After three hours: All parts are congested with blood, 

painful on movement with heat and sweat; throbbing 
pains everywhere; eyes wild and anxious; throat parched, 
dry, sore; had great difficulty in swallowing; sensitive to 
noise and bright light; throat red and swollen; parts hot 
everywhere; has dry cough, hot mouth. These symp- 
toms continued up to 

At the end of eight hours: The skin was covered with 
a red rash. I now became convinced that all of the 1 5 
drops had absorbed, and the vomiting had not expelled it. 
The nervous system was struggling valiantly to throw it 
off. 

After nine and one-half hours: Is growing stupid; 
nods, then starts with a wild furious look in the face; 
spasms in the throat when attempting to drink; tries to 
get out of bed; strikes at attendants who attempt to re- 

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strain him; pulse, 144; wiry and heavy; temperature, 
103 1-2 . Case was now very dangerous. 

At the end of twelve hours: Sleeps, mutters, profuse 
sweat; tongue red and dry; throat glands swollen; when 
attempting to swallow water, it comes through his nose; 
skin very hot; snatches of sleep, stertorous breathing; 
often wants to go home; does not know where he is; 
watery stools; tympanitis. 

At the end of sixteen hours: Stupidity and delirium 
subsiding; talks with difficulty; cannot use his legs; back 
feels broke at level with top of sacrum; urine dark, heavy, 
thick; stools watery, small; bowels sore; is dizzy and 
loses his sight on rising up. Symptoms continued to the 
fifth day. 

When, after five days: Pulse, 76, small; temperature, 
98 3-8 . There was a gradual subsidence of the intensity 
of the symptoms after sixteen hours. 

Here is a complete similarity to an encephalic typhoid 
fever, but there are no symptoms that could match an 
enteric typhoid. J have simply given you this to show 
how disturbances in the life forces can be met, and the 
self-evident law of cure that naturally crops out during 
our investigations. This v/ill do for an instructor. We 
found the difference between this and the help of the re- 
sisting life forces to be the 1 70 potency of belladonna, 
when it is applied to meet a like force in a similar disturb- 
ance in the system, with the help of the life forces already 
at work. This 1 00 drops of alcohol and the 1 70th 
potency of belladonna in it, to be mixed with a pint of 

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water and drank slowly within half an hour, to saturate 
the system and not provoke expulsion. But one such 
dose each sixteen hours. Why? Now we will see how 
to apply belladonna in similarities: 

First — Let us suppose we have a case like the symp- 
toms at the end of sixteen hours, in the belladonna prov- 
ing. We give the belladonna, as described; if, at the 
end of sixteen hours, we have no result, our dose is too 
heavy and was, perhaps, thrown off. We repeat it, half 
as strong; it has stopped the increase. We do not repeat 
it, but wait. If no effect, repeat it every sixteen hours; 
for it is similar no longer. 

Second — If the symptoms of our patient is like the bel- 
ladonna proving at the sixteenth hour, but the pulse and 
temperature are but one-half that which the belladonna 
produced, we must weaken our force one-half and give 
belladonna at the 85th potency. Why? The rule is 
the pivot force, being 43, then; because the disease force 
is but half as heavy as the belladonna produced. 

There are drugs of every kind and description that 
produce thousands of individual characteristics, sufficient 
to match any kind of a disturbance in the nerve forces. 
We take our choice under the law of the similars, of the 
curative that will match the similar conditions in the short- 
est possible time. Verat Vir, would match it in four hours. 
We have said that men can be made to live 1 20 years, 
and perhaps more. What authority do I have for making so 
astounding a statement? We can now create and trans- 
mit animal life force to the nerve centres, made from the 

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same elements the stomach uses. We do not need the 
help of the failing from age nervous system. We do our 
own digesting — are troubled with no waste because we 
deal only with the original forces that produce food and 
digest it — making our own carbon and heat. If we can 
reinforce a man's life as fast as he fails from age and wear, 
when is he going to die? It is not a question of perhaps; 
we are doing it as fast as men will let us. Five thousand 
a day can be reinforced if we have a machine and hall 
large enough. If there are irritations and inflammations 
which we cannot wait for the machine or vitalizer to re- 
move the cause of and expel, we have found a law and 
medicine for them during our researches and experiments. 
These are not theories alone; we have tested and proved 
every one of them over two and a half years, with the 
rules of natural science, and have established what is 
claimed. 

This Thompson Vitalizer is soon to open business in 
all the cities of the country. After watching its work 
the great newspapers have become so excited over it they 
have given us, voluntarily, nearly whole page illustrations 
and descriptions, because it is the first natural support 
discovered that can remove the causes of nearly all chronic 
diseases without the help of medicine, so quietly and im- 
perceptibly the patient does not know he is being treated. 
A child can sleep through it all. You can soon prove it. 

Of course you ask me to designate the difFernt kinds of 
food science and life care demands, that shall be used to 
give us a healthy life force? Remember the axiom, "life 

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is what you make it." You cannot get a pure, untainted 
life force from the carbon deoxides. Then why should 
you take them? The only unadulterated food you can 
buy are eggs, cream, butter, peas, beans, lettuce, onions, 
cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, string beans, beets, aspara- 
gus, sugar, wheat flour, oatmeal, rice, corn meal, rye 
flour, tapioca, barley meal, sweet potatoes, potatoes, 
apples and buckwheat. There is only one drawback on 
potatoes, the paris green, used to kill bugs, and disposi- 
tion to decay. 

Nearly all luxuries, from unhealthy combination, are 
unwholesome and unfit to manufacture our life forces 
from. A healthy life force is more essential than healthy 
blood food. The blood is only a current of nutrition for 
building purposes after the most of the life force it can 
create has been extracted. How many stop to consider 
it? I have never heard it mentioned. Think. Which 
are the proper foods? Let us go back to our table. We 
find that dry albumen contains most all of natural elements 
of the body. We shall select eggs, and we want starch, 
sugar and oil. To vary the monotony, we must change 
from one article to another, or a proper group of others, that 
contain what we want. Then we will first select, to go 
with the egg, some preparation of wheat bread, mut- 
ton, butter and sweet potatoes, hot water made palatable 
with some simple flavor, or milk, if pure. Second, some 
preparation of wheat flour, rice, sugar, milk, butter and 
cream. Third, some preparation of wheat flour, rice, 
butter and cream. These are leaders. Mix in the un- 

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adulterated foods to suit the tasts and occasion. Un- 
healthy stomachs may reject some of these. On unhealthy 
stomachs no rule of dietetics can apply. Take that which 
agrees with you best. It is essential that we have the 
life elements pure, in no measure of deoxidation or decay. 

Both producers and dealers are interested in keeping 
the articles I have named, in the best possible condition, 
from commercial reasons. Most all other foods are in- 
jured. To make the meat tender, it is hung up until par- 
tial disintegration from decay makes it tender enough for 
the epicure, who ignorantly eats it. In the same density 
of ignorance, the dealer sells it. He simply caters to 
your taste and expressed wishes. If you prefer a pure 
vigorous life force, omit half decayed meat in your diet. 
If you must have it, eat it only when first killed, as the 
cannabal does. 

The cereal diet gives you the most strength and vigor, 
grain for grain. It is always pure, if well dried at first. 
It contains, with milk, all the elements the body of a 
grown person calls for. Meat does not. Men have 
nearly starved on meat alone, before they knew what was 
the matter. It is not essential to life, strength or endur- 
ance. I have purposely tried it in my own case. Berries 
or fresh ripe fruits are luxuries enough for any one. 

Allow me to suggest one more thing. The stomach 
creates gastric juice slowly. There is never enough there, 
at one time, for an overload of food. Eat every four 
hours, half as much as your appetite craves. Its perfect 
digestion from plenty of gastric juice and pure food gives 

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a pure untainted life force and more strength and endur- 
ance than a half digested overload. Try it. It will sur- 
prise you. You will be a little hungry all the time, but 
you will have strength, vitality, a clear head and good 
sleep. I have been there and I know. It has been tried 
by thousands with the same result. Very soon a syndi- 
cate of the ablest physicians will found a new school upon 
these developments and establish a place for its application 
in every large city, where they will create and transmit 
pure life force to the nerve centres. Their public notice 
will be in the papers, of the Thompson Natural Vitalixer. 
Twenty-eight hundred old wrecks have taken it here. 
The result is so marvellous I dare not state it. It would 
look like the add of a fakir. When it is established, go 
and see it. It is out of my hands; I am too old to enter 
upon such a career as this calls for; I can only sit, write 
and suggest. We are but on the verge of a scientific ad- 
ministration of systems that will make life and existence 
so sure, only cancer and well settled tuberculosis will be 
able to kill. The administration of medicine should be 
as positive, under the direction of the natural law, as the 
chemical. It will be, I can see the light breaking 
through new developing systems applied in better hope. 
Every moment the educational freedom of the world is 
digging through the criminal, bigoted self-satisfaction of 
the old time, and the student catches sight of natural ideas 
so barely perceptible, at first, that his educated brain 
begins with a suggestion and his ingenuity and larger store 
of wisdom digs for the ultimate. 

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They are getting there, too. Fast growing wisdom is 
making the world a better one to live in every day. 
Death is made to halt in his old systems of plagues, and 
sanitary measures to prevent a vitiation of the air we 
breathe are even in better advance than personal care. 
Shall we live to 120 years? I believe so. We shall 
begin the battle for it right here, today. I have hundreds 
in my care already. Of 2831 of supposed incurable in- 
valids, only five have died after two and a half years, and 
they were sick with organic disease before they came. 
The others keep up their vitality with the vitalizer, which 
prevents illness very largely. If, by negligence, they get 
sick, I can correct it at once in the manner I have de- 
scribed, though many are fifty miles away. 

A great syndicate will employ the best skill money can 
buy, and occupy every city in the country; when people 
will be taken in care to prevent illness and danger, An 
attempt will be made to prevent the infirmities of extreme 
age and the kinds of illness nerve failure imposes. It is 
now thought that people can be protected at much less 
than the prices of medical trnatment; save time, suifering 
and the present anxiety caused by fatalities in the past. 

If I have repeated some of the most important things 
involved in this system, it was to impress you most 
thoroughly with the idea and its association with others. 

I shall try to re-write this book some time in the future, 
when I hope to know more. The great world of life is 
growing and we shall know more when another decade 
arrives. The educational institutions are developing 

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better men than the old lot, who had to get their educa- 
tions as best they could, and have since earned the money 
that has placed the boys on a higher plane for develop- 
ment. 



LET ME GET YOUR MEALS. 
WHAT SHALL WE EAT? 



This matter is paramount to everything, when our 
vital force is the question at issue; for quality, to make a 
pure enduring force, is to be considered of great impor- 
tance. To eat animals is a relic of barbarism. The 
world is changing as education developes the sciences in 
practical effect. It has been found that the cereals, eggs, 
milk, butter and sugar, gives a better and more enduring 
vitality. 

Chemisty has now become the unquestioned arbiter. 
Now I will try to arrange your meals as the chemical 
laws provide. I shall not deprive you of a reasonable 
amount of the luxuries, I will try to provide for all of 
the different classes in life, from the laborer to the person 
of sedentary habits. 

The doctor must decide for his patient. I shall en- 
deavor to obtain an equilibrium, in means of repair, that 
will replace the elements that are constantly wasting. I 
have told you that combinations of food can be made that 
will prevent the waste of good food taken; that will cost 

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less than your haphazard, dessultory habits have origi- 
nated, because no scientist has told you before this, per- 
haps, how to think right when ordering your meals. I 
have also told you that it requires just as much gastric 
juice to digest a pound of cabbage as it does to digest a 
pound of bread, while the bread can give you twelve 
times as much vital support, and costs no more. Now 
for the facts. 



PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF 
RULES FOR EATING. 



It is not easy for a person, unread in the chemistry of 
the selection and cooking of food, to determine the proper 
thing from the plain statements I have made. I will, 
therefore, give you such formulas for meals as healthy life 
force, vital endurance and good health shall require. Let 
me first impress you with what the natural laws will re- 
quire. We may, roughly speaking, say that a man or 
woman is made up of the following textures, given by 
percentage: Muscles, 50; viscera, 12; skin and fat, 25; 
skeleton, 1 3 ; which is made and kept in repair by taking 
food. 

There is a corresponding amount of waste, which, 
speaking roughly, approximates, in grains: Water, 
995.34; carbon, 205.96; nitrogen, 30.80; salts, 10. 
Waste via the kidneys, in percentage: Water, urea, 70.02; 

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carbon, 6.04; nitrogen, 100; salts, 97. Waste, lungs 
and skin: Water, 26.01; carbon, 92.06. Waste, ex- 
crement: Water, 3.07; carbon, 1.09; salts, 2.04. 

Albumen is the basic nutrition for all living things. It is 
most all of value in meats and the vegetable kingdom. 
It is like pure gold that never changes. Let me call your 
attention to the basic rule in chemical compounds, of 
which our body is one: "Every chemical compound 
always contains the same proportion of elements/ * and 
every excess of any one that is offered from the great 
masses existing in the outside world, is barred, If it is in 
the shape of food taken into the stomach, the excess 
passes off with the waste and is lost to you. It, there- 
fore, becomes necessary that your food elements should 
be chemically balanced. 

It has been shown that the same nutritive elements ex- 
ist in both animal and vegetable foods, and that, within, 
certain limits, the two classes of food are interchangeable. 
Also that both are divisible into two sub-classes: nitro- 
genous, or fresh formers, and heat givers; the former 
being the larger. The nitrogenous consists of grains and 
vegetable tissues. Starch and sugar are in vegetables 
what fat is in animals. Grains, or cereals, when digested, 
will produce flesh, and starch, when transformed in the 
body, will produce fat, Starch, sugar, oil, fibrine and 
albumen, then, are the most important foods. We will 
examine the vegetables most used in food: 

Starch in arrowroot, 82 p.c. ; carbon, 6; hydrogen, 10; 
oxygen, 5. 

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Starch in rice, 79.01 p.c. ; water, 13; nitrogen, 6.03; 
sugar, .4; fat, .7; salts, .4. 

Starch in rye meal, 69.05 p.c; water, 15; nitrogen, 
8; sugar, 7.03; fat, 2; salts, 1.08. 

Starch in wheat flour, 66.04 p.c; water, 14.73; 
nitrogen, 16; albumen, 10.3 1; sugar, 7.01 ; fat, 2; 
salts, 1.07. 

Starch in barley flour, 69.04 p.c; water, 13; nitro- 
gen, 16; albumen, 6.03; sugar, 4.07; fat, 2.04; salts, 2. 

Starch in Indian corn, 64.07 p.c; water, 14; nitro- 
gen, ii; sugar, .04; fat, 8.01 ; salts, 1.07. 

Starch in oat meal, 58.04 p.c; water, 15; nitro- 
gen, 12.06; sugar, 5.04; fat, 5.06; salts, 3. 

Starch in peas and beans, 55.04 p.c; water, 15; 
nitrogen, 23; sugar, 2.01 ; fat, 2.01 ; salts, 2.03. 

Starch in potatoes, 18.08; water, 75; nitrogen, 2.01 ; 
sugar, 3.02. fat, .02; salts, .07. 

Starch in wheat bread, 77.04; 250 pounds of flour 
will make 3 80 pounds of bread. 

Grapes — water, 79; sugar, 13.08, 

Blackberries — -water, 86.406; sugar, 4.444. 

Apples (pippins) — water, 85.87; sugar, 10.36. 

Stawberries — water, 87.019; sugar, 4.550. 

Sugar — carbon, 1 2 ; hydrogen, 1 1 ; oxygen, 1 1 . 

The percentage of solid nutrition in beef, 27 1-2 
mutton, 26 1-2; veal, 27 1-2; pork, 30 1-2; fowl, 26 
cheese, 70 1-2; rice, 79 1-2; rye, 69.05; wheat, 65 
barley, 69; Indian corn, 64.07; oatmeal, 58.04; peas 
and beans, 55.04; potatoes, 18.08; wheat bread, 47.04. 

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These are what is left after their water has been ex- 
tracted. 

I will make another table that shall show the amount of 
nutrition and animal force there is in each article of food. 
Then we will know just how much of each kind to select 
for a meal; for if you use an excess of either oxygen, 
hydrogen or nitrogen, which your food is made from, 
the system will take from that food what the law of 
affinity dictates to make your body compound, and the rest 
goes with the waste. You see it is a question of economy as 
well as balancing the nutrition and life forces. You can 
compel the system to take almost everything, but it will 
get rid of excess and waste it as rapidly as possible, 
unless you overwhelm the nervous system and its life 
force. In such a case, you are soon advised of the con- 
sequences. 

PERCENT. OF NUTRITION AND ANIMAL FORCE IN OUR FOODS. 

1 . Our bodies are composed of: Oxygen, 2 1 ; 
hydrogen, 7; nitrogen, 16; carbon, 53; salts, 3. 

2. Ox cartilage, oxygen, 25.67; hydrogen, 7.14; 
nitrogen, 17.32; carbon, 49.81 ; salts, 1. 

3. Whole ox, average, oxygen, 22; hydrogen, 
7.06; nitrogen, 15.07; carbon, 53.16; salts, 1. 

4. Animal fat, oxygen, II; hydrogen, 12; nitro- 
gen, o; carbon, 77. 

5. Dried egg albumen, oxygen, 22.01 ; hydrogen, 
7; nitrogen, 5.07; carbon, 53.04; salts, 3. 

6. Vegetable albumen, oxygen, 22.04; hydrogen, 
7.08; nitrogen, 15.08; carbon, 54.04; salts, 1. 



7. Whole egg, dry matter, 30; dry fat, II; nitro- 
gen, 3.08; carbon, 17.52. 

8. Poultry, water, 74; fat, 4; nitrogen, 21 ; salts, 2. 

9. Milk (new), oxygen, 215 hydrogen, 7; nitro- 
gen, 16; carbon, 53; salts, 3. 

10. Salts in milk, potash, 23.46; soda, 7; lime ? 
17.34; cn l°« potass., 14.18; mag., 7; phos. acid* 
28.40. 

11. Wheat flour, water, 15; albumen, 11; starch, 
65.03; sugar, 7.02; fat, 2; salts, 1.07. 

12. Starch, oxygen, 10; hydrogen, II; carbon, 12. 

13. Peas, beans (ultimate), oxygen, 22; hydrogen, 
6.06; nitrogen, 23; carbon, 39; salts, 3. 

14. Oil, or butter, oxygen, II; hydrogen, 12; car* 
bon, 77. 

15. Sugar, oxygen, II; hydrogen, II; carbon, 12* 

16. Cheese (new milk), oxygen, 22.52; hydrogen, 
7.15; nitrogen, 15.65; carbon, 53.83; salts, 2.06. 

17. Human body, man, oxygen, 21; hydrogen, 7; 
nitrogen, 16; carbon, 53; salts, 3, 

18. Corn, Indian, water, 14; starch, 65; nitrogen, 
11; sugar, 4; fat, 8; salts, 2. 

19. Rice, water, 13; starch, 79; nitrogen, 73 
sugar, 4; fat, 7; salts, I. 

20. Oatmeal, water, 15; starch, 58; nitrogen, 125 
sugar, 6; fat, 5.06; salts, .05. 

21. New milk, water, 86; nitrogen, 6; fat, 45 
sugar, 4; salts, 1 . 

22. Peas and beans, water, 15; starch, 55; nitro- 

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gen, 23; carbon, 12; sugar, 2; fat, 2; salts, 3. 

15. Fish (cod, salt mackerel), oxygen, 20.032; 
nitrogen, 15.460; hydrogen, 6.581; carbon, 48.795. 

16. Potatoes, water, 75; nitrogen, 2.01 ; starch, 
18.08; sugar, 3.02; carbon, i). 

Don't throw the cartilage away when you prepare 
your meat for the table; with eggs, mixed with chopped 
boiled cartilage, you have the richest dish that can be 
made. 



Av. cost 
per lb. 
. 10c 

• 5 

• 5 



Beef, 

Cartilage, .... 

Rice, 

Bread, at home ... 1 y 2 

New milk cheese, . 1 5 

" made at home, 7 

Poultry, 16 

" raised at home, 8 

Corn meal, 1 



Av. cost 
per lb. 

Steak, 1 8c 

Milk, quart 6 

Wheat flour, 2^ 

Oatmeal, 2 

Butter, 24 

" made at home, 16 

Starch, 4 

Sugar, 5 

Peas, beans, dried, . 5 



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COST 

One bushel 

Peas 

Beans 

Onions 

Parsnips 

Turnips 

Carrots 

Beets 

Sweet Potatoes 

Potatoes 

Buckwheat 

Oats 

Barley 

Wheat 

Rye 

Corn 

Flour, barrel 

An adult is considered 
supplied with the following daily diet: 

Albuminous foods, 3.5 ounces; equalled by two eggs, 
lightly cooked. 

Fats, 3.1 ounces; equalled by fat meat, 2 ounces; 
butter, one ounce. 

Starch, 10.7 ounces; equalled by wheat bread, 10 
ounces, gives starch and other balanced food. 

Salts, one ounce; equalled in the bread. 

Water, 4 pints; this and milk if you need it. 

We must remember that it is not the proteid, fat and 
starch of the body that we burn wholly, but the living tissues 
formed by the assimilation of these substances. That food, 

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after assimilation, becomes a part of the real fuel of the body, 
Pephaps I should give you the exact chemistry of the dif- 
ferent articles of food I shall recommend. Chemical 
activity continues until the last; use and waste, which 
continues the production of carbon or life force. 

APPROXIMATE COMPOSITION. 

Man — oxygen, it; hydrogen, 7; nitrogen, 16; car* 
bon, 53; salts, 3. 

Hydro- Nitro- 

Food Oxygen gen gen Carbon Salts 

Wheat bread, 23.37 7.13 16.04 53.46 3 
Milk (new), 21 7 16 53 3 

Gelatine, 24.62 6.64 18.34 50.40 

Cheese, 22.37 7.15 15.65 53.83 sul. 1 

Fibrine, 23.05 6.09 15.04 52.07 sul. 1.02 

[Phos. .03 
Egg albumen, 22 7 15.05 53.05 sul. 1.06 

[Phos. .04 

Daily food for man: Albumen, 3^ ozs. ; fats, 3 1-10 
ozs.; starch, 10 7-10 ozs.; salts, 1 oz. 5 water, 4 pints. 

Food Albumen Fat Starch Sugar Salts 

Peas, beans, 23 3 5 5.4° 2.50 2.50 

Oatmeal, 12.60 5.60 58.40 5.40 3 

Wheat bread, 11 2 65.03 7.02 1.07 

It is very easy to figure a food balance from these 
tables and waste none. Three and a half pounds of 
potatoes are only equal to one pound of bread. One 
pound of oatmeal is equal to six pounds of potatoes. One 
pound of oatmeal, wheat flour, rice, barley, rye, dry 
beans, dry peas or two eggs, are equal to one and a half 
pounds of average beefsteak for food. Therefore, by con» 

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suiting the tables I have made, you will learn that milk, 
eggs, wheat Hour, oatmeal, corn meal, water and butter, 
are the fundamental foods — the meals being of the same 
approximate composition, but weaker in nutrition when 
the weight is compared. 

Consider that there are ten basic foods, that, in their 
elemental makeup, contain nearly the same proportion as 
the elements of the body; or so much so, in such propor- 
tion, that they alone, individually, could properly build 
and repair the organism and life force, viz. : Wheat flour 
bread, dried peas and beans, hen's eggs, vegetable albu- 
men, cow's milk, new milk cheese, codfish, trout or sal- 
mon, with butter and milk. There are many others so 
nearly like our compound that it gives a chance for many 
luxurious changes or combinations that would entail but 
little loss in any excess of one element. Enough to gratify 
the most fastidious tastes and yet obtain a pure, well bal- 
anced, enduring life force, at about half the cost a desul- 
tory gormandizer would make; but we should tire of one 
combination, or the same article of food continually re- 
peated, therefore it remains for us to make a variety of 
combinations to obviate such a result. To feed the sys- 
tem with the necessaries that the body calls for, through 
the instincts, as originated by the law of affinities, what 
shall we have for breakfast? When your body lacks 
water, you will be thirsty. The body does feed and 
waste in the same proportions. We must have a bal- 
anced proportion in the food, just so much of each neces- 
sary element, vis: Oxygen, 21; hydrogen, 7; nitrogen, 
16; carbon, 53; salts, 3, percent. How shall we obtain 

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it and get a due proportion of these elements? We will 
spread a breakfast for man, wife and two children, and 
what it will cost: 

The human body elements are: Oxygen, 22; hydro- 
gen, 7; nitrogen, 16; carbon, 53; salts, 3. 
Oxy- Hydro- Nit- 



Food 


Cost 


gen 


gen rogen Carbon Salts 


6 eggs, 

2 lbs bread, 


I2C. 

3 C - 


22 
23 


7 5-1 53-04 3 
7 16.4 53.46 3 


2 cups coffee | 
2 " milk, } 


4c, 


Milk 


is same elements as bodies. 


2 ozs. cold | 
corned beef, J 
Heat, gas 


2C 
IC. 


22 


7.6 15.7 53- 10 * 



Total, 22 cents. 

Here is a good and sufficient meal for four, at 6 cents 
each. One-fourth was left. The excess of carbon and 
oxygen was met by an absorption of nitrogen from the 
air, which occurs in small deficiencies, the other elements 
attracting. 

SAME FAMILY WHAT FOR DINNER? 

Our body: Oxygen, 21; hydrogen, 7; nitrogen, 16; 
carbon, 53; salts, 3. 



Oxy- 


Hydro 


- Nit- 


Car- 


Ozs. of Food Cost gen 


gen 


rogen 


bon Salts 


32 wheat bread, 3 c. 27.37 


7.13 


16.04 


53-4 6 3 


16 roast beef 12c. 22 


7.06 


15.07 


53.16 1 


1 y 2 butter 3 c. — 


- 


— 


11 


16 potato, 2c. fat 3 


— 


2.07 


1 1 1 


2 cups tea, 2 m'k, 4c. 21 


7 


16 


53 3 


Heat, gas, 6c. 








Total, 3c cents. 




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We have 13 per cent, excess of carbon in this meal. 
The others balance quite well. We cannot absorb carbon 
from the atmosphere; it comes to us when a proper 
elemental compound expels it. 

SAME FAMILY AT SUPPER. 

Our body: Oxygen, 21 ; hydrogen, 7; nitrogen, 16; 
carbon, 53; salts, 3. 

Oxy- 
Ozs. of Food Cost gen 
3 2 wheat biscuit, 3 c. 23.37 
16 ricepud., sug'r, 6c. 10 
6 cold si' d poultry, 8c. — 
2 butter, 3 c. — 

2 cups coffee, 2 m. 4c. 21 



Hydro- Nit- 


Car- 


gen rogen 


bon Salts 


7.13 16.04 


53-J6 3 


10 7 


12 1 


— 2 4 


6 2 


— — 


11 


7 16 


53 2 



Total, 24 cents. 

Here is another meal that will become elementally bal- 
anced from the atmosphere. 

Sauces and relishes have little or no nutritive value; 
mostly water. It is necessary for an adult to take two 
quarts of water per day, through all means, to repair the 
waste from the body. If not taken, we are weak and 
tired accordingly, and some people don't know what ails 
them. They believe that they need a stimulant, or that 
their blood is poor. 

The above three meals were tried on the family of a 
clerk for one week. One-fourth of the food was left 
every night for the morning hash. The food cost $4.32 
per week, or $224.64 per year. The meals were well 
balanced and gave enough force. I threw out half of the 

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meat, and wife, servant girl and myself, all hearty eaters, 
had more than we needed. We had no disturbances in 
the digestion. We felt strong and agile, but it was diffi- 
cult to get the women to drink sufficient water, outside 
the table drink. Don't drink when eating. 

You will remember that I advised you that some per- 
sons eat twice as much of some of the elements as the 
body would assimilate, or take on. In such a case there 
is a heavy loss of good food, and its money value. The 
law of natural affinity and an irritated, reactive nervous 
system had to throw the excess away. This may be said 
of excess in other elements. Every compound will keep 
its deffinite proportions, and our body is one of them, 
unless you cause reactions, then more than excess is 
thrown off. Don't think for a moment that all you eat 
can remain, when you take an overload. If you take 
more food than you have gastric juice to digest, a part is 
digested. If the rest sours, for want of digestive fluid, it 
vitiates the digested and makes it unfit for good life force, 
and there is cause for weakness and nervous exhaustion, 
because no life force is made from food that cannot be 
digested. Gormandizers are always lifeless sluggards, 
because of this fact. 

I have made a tabulated record of most all of the prin- 
cipal articles of diet. If you are short of a staple you can 
go to the tables and patch with other foods. If you 
want extras, never eat all you want of regular foods. It 
will leave you room for fruits and light delicacies. Fruits, 
green corn, string beens, green peas, parsnips and such 

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like, from the vegetable kingdom, contain so small an 
amount of nutrition they are of no account, except as a 
relish. They contain a little sugar, the rest water. A 
table will give you definite proportions. If you have 
gastric juice to throw away on such, eat them. I eat 
apples and plums. I eat no meat, and they call me a 
picture of health. There are few men in Boston, at 67, 
that exhibit my agility and my endurance. I confine my 
eating to eggs, milk, cream, butter, fruits, wheat bread, 
rice, sugar, oatmeal, buckwheat and sweet potatoes, corn 
meal puddings, corn starch and such like, taken in bal- 
ance. I keep my functions in natural balance by well 
balanced diet, and my nerves strong enough to keep the 
organism at the normal standard. I use the vitalizer 
when I am tired out. 

I desire to show you that you may have the best 
muscle and life force support by taking the cereal foods. 
To the man of small means they are a better support and 
most economical. Luxuries are always a means of injury 
and weakness. 



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THE TABLE OF RIGID ECONOMY. 



We have shown that the vegetable cereals contain all 
of the elements of food that exists in animal flesh. That 
one pound of wheat bread is equal to 3 1-2 pounds of 
potatoes and costs less. That one pound of oatmeal, 
wheat, rice, barley, rye, dry peas or beans, or two eggs, 
as nutrition, are equal to one and a half pounds of the 
best beefsteak. Meats are only a luxury — are never 
essential, nevertheless the millions of opinions to the con- 
trary. 

AVERAGE AMOUNT OF NUTRITION NECESSARY, PER DAY, 
FOR AN ADULT LABORER. 

Albumen, 31-2 ozs.; fats, 3 1-10 ozs. ; starch, 12 
ozs. ; salts, 1 oz. ; water, 64 ozs. 

1 . First three meals- — 4 eggs, 1 oz. butter, 8 ozs. 
fat meat, 20 ozs. wheat bread, 64 ozs. drink. Cost, 21 
cents. 

2. Second three meals — 4 eggs, 2 ozs. butter, 8 
ozs. rice, 2 pounds wheat bread, 64 ozs. drink. Cost, 
20 cents. 

3. Third three meals — \y£ quarts of milk, 2 pounds 
wheat bread, 1 pound rice pudding, 2 ozs. butter. Cost, 
19 cents, 

STILL MORE ECONOMICAL LABORER. 

4. First three meals— 2 pounds of bread, 2 ozs. 
butter, 1 pound rice pudding, 1 egg. Cost, 16 cents. 

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5. Second three meals — 2 pounds of bread, 3 pints 
of milk, 2 ozs. butter, 2 eggs. Cost, sixteen cents. 

6. Third three meals — 1 quart of milk, 1 egg, 2 
pounds of bread, 1 pound rice pudding, 1 oz. butter. 
Cost, seventeen cents. 

WITH SECOND-GRADE OF MEAT, LABORER. 

7. First three meals — 1 pound of fat beef, 1 pound 
of bread, 1 pound of potatoes, 1 oz. butter, 1 pound of 
dumplings. Cost, 27 cents. 

8. Second three meals — 1 pound fat beef, 2 pounds 
of biscuit, 2 ozs. of butter, y^ pound rice pudding. Cost 
fifteen cents. 

9. Third three meals — 1 pound fresh pork, 2 
pounds of bread, 1 oz. of butter, y^ pound flour pudding. 
Cost, fifteen cents. 

FOR EXTREME POVERTY. 

10. First three meals — 2 pounds of bread, 1 pound 
of rice, 2 ozs. of butter. Cost, 10 cents. 

11. Second three meals — 1 quart of milk, 2 pounds 
of bread, 1 oz. of molasses, 4. ozs. of rice. Cost, 
eleven cents. 

12. Third three meals — 1 quart of milk, 1 pound of 
bread, y 2 pound of rice, 1 egg. Cost, 1 2 cents. 

If a person does no labor, he can live on one-half this 
cost. Perhaps less, if they have broken foods, or work 
meat shreds and broken bread into stews or soups. 



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RECAPITULATION. 



Let me show you again how near the composition of 
certain foods are to the elemental composition of our 
bodies: 

Elements in our bodies: Oxygen, 21 ; hydrogen, 7; 
nitrogen, 16; carbon, 53; salts, 3. 

Hydro Nitro- 



Elements Oxygen 


gen 


gen 


Carbon 


Salts 


Wheat bread, 23.37 
Pea, beans d'd 22 


7-13 
6.06 


16.04 
2 3 


53- 4 6 
1 2 


3 
2 


Eggs, hen's, 22.01 
Album' n veg. 22.04 
Milk, cow's, 21 
Cheese, | 
new milk, j ' -* 


7 
7.08 

7 
7->5 


5.07 
15.08 
16 

15.65 


53-°4 
54.04 

53 
53-83 


3 
1 

3 

2.06 


Codfish, 20.032 
Trout, " 


6.581 


15.460 48.795 

(< ( c 


< ( 


Ox, average, 22 


7.06 


15.07 

at nMS 




I 



Veal, mutton, poultry and pork are off the same piece, 
or nearly so. You see that meats, made from the vege- 
table kingdom, necessarily contain the same elements that 
vegetables do. There is, therefore, no necessity for us 
to cruelly kill the helpless to obtain our living. That is 
one of my objections to meat diet. The other is, meat is 
allowed to partially decay, to make it tender, before it is 
consumed. It is, then, a carbon deoxide, semi-poison- 

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gus and unfit to use in producing animal life force, which 
it vitiates. It is first a stimulant, in that condition, then 
it is necessarily reactive, which process is, secondarily, 
conducive to nervous exhaustion. 

That is the reason, once a meat-eater always a meat- 
eater, to fill the hankering goneness which the reaction 
from stimulation causes. The same is exhibited in the 
action of any stimulant, for no good enduring life force 
can come from food that has become a deoxide or even 
partially so. 

In France the consumption of meat, per capita, is 8 
ozs. per day, average of the year. The consumption of 
bread, per capita, is 14.4 ozs. per day, average of a year, 
while of fish, the average is but one and a quarter ounces 
per capita. The consumption of wine is 8 ozs. per capita, 
which they consider to be more healthful than tea and 
coffee. 



LET ME GIVE YOU MY OWN LIVING. 

BREAKFAST FOR THREE ADULTS, 

Two eggs, a pint of milk, an ounce of butter, one 
pound of bread, three cups of hot milk, in place of coffee. 
Beat eggs and first pint of milk together, add the butter 
and cook. Toast the bread and soak it soft in hot water, 
then turn on the milk gravy, etc; eat hot. New milk 
cheese and apple sauce for relish. This whole meal for 
three persons, including heat for cooking, costs about five 
cents per person. It combines the best elements for life 

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force, well balanced. There is scarcely any waste. Total 
cost, with heat, fifteen cents. 

DINNER FOR THREE. 

Two pounds of bread, toasted, one-half pound of 
boiled rice, warmed up in milk, one ounce of sugar, one 
and one-half ounces of butter, apple sauce. One pint of 
hot milk in place of tea. Often apple dumplings. This 
meal, including heat for cooking, costs but twenty-one 
cents. 

SUPPER FOR THREE. 

Two pounds of hot biscuit, two ounces of butter, one 
and one-half pints of hot milk, apple sauce. Cost, 
fifteen cents. 

I do not eat meat. I often put in griddle cakes in 
place of half the bread, and vary the others; but keep an 
approximate chemical balance. There is no dyspepsia, 
nervous disorders, rheumatism or sick headaches in my 
family. You see the programme, that we live luxuriously, 
and have much left over. I never eat as much as I want. 
By so doing, all digests and my system gets all. 

You see by this practical test, that a family of three 
healthy adults live on $187.15 a year, and all are con- 
tinuous hard workers at both physical and mental labor. 
We don't need to economize, but it pays both ways, 
saves money and good health. We lose no time in ill- 
ness; it costs nothing for vacations for rest. We always 
have the comforts of home. 

Lunches may be made on the same basis of using the 
chemical basis to prevent loss. If you do, you need not 

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carry half as much as is usual. Don't be afraid of a little 
hunger. Fear only satiety. A half pound of food well 
digested is better than four pounds partially digested. Eat 
only the amount your stomach can digest and your vital 
force will be more abundant and enduring. To try it 
will settle it. 



IN A NUTSHELL. 



After a time it has been thrust in our face, as an old, 
self-evident fact, long apparent upon the record: That 
food makes animal life, that food comes from certain com- 
binations of the great gases, that the same force can be 
extracted from them before they make food, and can give 
nerve force of the same character, aside from furnishing 
constructive material in building an organism. That this 
should have taken the place of stimulants and tonics long 
ago. 

That, when Hahnemann discovered that quinine could 
originate chills and fever, on the law of the similars, that 
small fact did not tell him how to give his drug as a simi- 
larity, vis, : Did not tell him how large a dose to give or 
when to repeat it, or why he should not repeat it; the fact 
remaining until today, that "similia simillibus curantur" is 
still without a scientific system of administration, and will 
continue to be until the law defined herein in the affinities 
has been systematized and put in operation. 

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That it is now apparent that a large part of the nutri- 
tious food eaten by healthy persons goes to waste in the 
alimentary canal, though digested, because rejected for 
want of chemical balance in reinforcing the body com- 
pound. 

That this has never been made known to the people, 
or been noticed by the journals of science, while it is ex- 
ceedingly important that a person should know *what kind 
of food and how much of each element should be taken 
to make a pure and enduring life force. Few people sus- 
pect that a vitiated life force, emanating from impure or 
undigested food, is largely the cause of nervous exhaustion 
and the thousand and one ills that are laid to the liver, 
stomach and bowels, and wins for them an exhausting 
purging that destroys another large block of the natural 
forces. 



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NOV 22 1902 



